Mildly interesting but disappointed

Rating: 5/10 (21 March 2020)

I was looking forward to Christopher Nolan's take on space SciFi so excitedly bought my ticket but left disappointed. It has shades of Space Odyssey 2001 where there's long takes of wide eyed faces, weird metaphysical scenes, floating in space but not much happens. I get the space time concept and the effects of time dilation but overall the story doesn't grab me. It's more of a slow meditative life reflection drama that happens to have a spaceship context. I hardly remember what the story is about... probably because there isn't much story to begin with. It's more of a sensory experience like Nolan's Dunkirk which also doesn't have much story. Still the movie is well shot but just a little hollow inside. Nolan's other time related film Inception is great though. Those who like slow meditative SciFi like Space Odyssey will enjoy this. Otherwise I'd give this a pass.