Visually Exceptional But Lacks Depth

Rating: Null/10 (23 November 2014)

Visually, Interstellar is exceptional and brilliantly rendered. The plot is centered on a attempt of poignant savior of humanity against global warming that has made the earth uninhabitable by the behavior of those in the 20th century. Yet only the United States is reflected and it is well known American's live differently than many other smaller or say 3rd world countries. Shouldn't we at least take a glimpse at what they turned out like before shooting off? Or did we forcibly take over every other country and ruin it all? As you can see it's already not making full sense. The human race is in jeopardy so obviously we must look too Matthew McConaughey and his character Cooper to save the day, uh, world population. Cooper is your run of the mill ex pilot, engineer, and obviously single parent forced by the government no less to run a farm. That's right a farm , where all the most brilliant people of your country should be hiding. He is then pulled off his farm and told to pilot a bunch of non credible i.e also non-believable scientists that include the likes of Anne Hathaway and Wes Bentley to go find a planet suitable for human life. With all the talk of humanity and the first hour going on about the downfall of humanity on earth there is little humanity in the characters. An ongoing weakness of Nolan's work is constantly relying on effects and name actors to flitter around the screen as one dimensional people and little substance to hold on to. It's fairly hokey and riddled with epic nonsense.
Now if this was a small indie film, I would be much more lenient and applause the attempt but considering the budget and scale of production with access to anything and everything money can buy and all the time , locations, and experts in the world at their disposal it would be crazy to let it pass. The visuals are top notch but there is really no excuse for such a lazy, one dimensional film, that lacks so much sense when every aspect a filmmaker could possibly desire was at their feet. It seemed like mind numbing visuals just thrown out to the public as if we would be too simple to notice there's nothing really to it. I much rather watch a carefully crafted no budget film where I feel the filmmakers heart and soul and probably a whole lot of tears poured into every possibly imperfect but purposeful scene than see how far our technology has gone but how digressive our minds have. There is one thing for sure other than the spectacular visuals is if this is the intellect we will hold steady to, we likely will ruin our planet.
While I like McConaughey and think has really proved himself a top notch actor in recent years this film did him no favors and certainly was not needed to hold such a title.