Great beginning. Good middle. Bad ending.

Rating: 5/10 (12 November 2014)

Kudos to the PR firm that doused IMDb with a ludicrously high rating to get more fans to go to his movie than they should. But now, let's get real about this movie ...
The Good: The story has a unique storyline that is imaginative, engaging and touching. That's likely why people walk away from the movie feeling better about the movie than you might expect. The story does everything from tug at your heart with an emotional parent/child separation to exercise your brain with quantum mechanics, physics and science. The acting is first rate and the characters are fairly well developed. The musical score and effects are also world class. The movie is polished, moving and creative.
The Bad: Where do I begin? While the story is unique and creative, it has enough holes in it to fill a donut shop. The writers want us to believe that "evolved humans of the future" choose to communicate with those of us in the past through Morse code. Hmmn. OK. They want us to ignore that the main character had to first find the NASA station in order to send the coordinates back to himself. But wait, if he already knew the coordinates then why would he need to send them back? Chicken/egg dilemma of time-related scripts. We must believe that someone can go into a black hole ... yes the (supposedly) most powerful force in the universe and yet conveniently be transported from the black hole to a worm hole close by Saturn. Funny how that all worked out. I could go on, but why?
You mix is all together and you get a movie that is 6-7 stars. No even close to the "brilliance" the PR guys published. But, a solid movie worth seeing if you like sci-fi.
IMO, Contact was better. This is another Mcconaughey movie that deals with the same genre, but the script is less tight. Both movies were moving. Both dealt with father/daughter separation. Both dealt with interstellar travel, worm holes, Relativity, etc. Both tugged at your heart. Contact was just better written.