Worst High-Profile Movie Of Recent Years, Utterly Overrated

Rating: 1/10 (20 March 2015)

In short: I have watched over a 1000 movies and TV shows and consider this one of the worst high-budget movies of recent years.
In fact, it is one of the only movies I walked out on after 30 minutes. If you are interested in a Space opera, watch Defying Gravity instead, a low-budget production that easily outshines this horrible Hollywood production and actually has some believable characters, believable science and raises some deeper questions.
Please note a few spoilers ahead. Excuse the mistakes, I wrote it in a rush
1 First Things First: The Unrealistic Science & Plot holes
A film that talks about science and attempts to be somewhat believable (and yes the films try to at least appear realistic one some level) should not have to deal with such absurdities:
1) A planet with 70 miles high waves one the one hand and areas where you can walk in 1-feet deep water close by? Absolutely ridiculous.
2) One of the biggest and laughable points for any Sci-Fi fan is the time difference on a planet in a different universe compared to Earth. Landing on a planet cannot magically change time, whereas transitioning through a space-time tunnel aka wormhole might. And if that planet was close to the blackhole then the blackhole would simply tear the planet apart. The movie either got it completely mixed up or failed to properly explain it. Either way, the fact is, the entire plot is flawed and it shows.
3) There are countless more plot holes and problems that I will not address here, you can find countless reviews online that address the many plot holes
All of that would have been acceptable to me, but then there's the cast: Both McConaughey and and Anne Hathaway are extremely poor choices for the roles.
2 Worst Cast For A Hollywood Movie Ever? Emotionless McConaughey And Hathaway As A Scientist - Who Are You Kidding Hollywood?
McConaughey failed to provoke any emotions in the audience: In one scene Cooper is leaving his family and it's completely emotionless and the scene itself has less than 5-minutes on screen-time. Where the hell is the struggle? A guy leaving his family would struggle for days unless he was a passionate, driven explorer. It did not feel like a struggle at all.
And if that character was such an adventurous, passionate explorer then they set this character (Cooper) up completely wrong. Either way, casting a 46-year old McConaughey for this role was just an extremely poor choice and they only made this casting choice to get more viewers!! How do you expect a 46-year old to display that kind of passion? He's an actor sure, but at that age you can't realistically portray a character who's leaving his family to rescue the planet. It should have been a 30-year old guy with some kind of burning fire, not that old worn-out character who's still bearing the visible marks of portraying a half-dead guy in Dallas Buyers Club (respect for going through that).
Then there's Ann Hathaway, a women who could be some kind of super model who they are trying to sell as a scientist. Sorry guys, but if you do such a poor job at casting, I can't take this film seriously.
3 Horrible Pacing
After the first 30-minutes the movie was dead. No emotion, no struggle. Stupid dialogues that provoked absolutely no feelings at all. Characters I would never care about raised trivial questions. Horrible. The pacing of the beginning was so horrible that it destroyed everything - how are you supposed to take a character serious who's not even struggling to leave his family. Oh god, do they really not know that it takes time to build a bond with the audience?
4 Good Reviews Bought? Tons of plot holes, bad pacing, poor cast, etc...
What's more, this movie fails to raise any interesting questions the audience hasn't already asked countless times before. Where's that ground-breaking question you could ponder over for days as was the case with classics like 'The Matrix'? For a movie with a 8.8 rating I was expecting some bigger questions and characters that actually get under my skin and not this emotionless movie with a poor cast, plot holes.
Now imagine the budget they had for this movie ($165,000,000) and compare it to similar low-budget productions such as Defying Gravity that excel at provoking emotions and still get canceled. The questions raised in Defying Gravity were so much more interesting and the characters so much more believable. I wouldn't shed a single tear watching this crap. And it's not like I am some emotionless bastard. I have cried watching shows like AMC's excellent "Halt And Catch Fire" or HBO's "Game of Thrones", because the cast is usually outstanding and are simply well chosen for their roles. Anne Hathaway and McConaughey were poor choices and it shows. It shows that this was a money-grab.
There will be some people who may be able to connect with the characters. Good for them. They may not have seen many movies before and/or are not familiar with the topic, but as a seasoned Sci-Fi fan you will regret buying this one.