Interesting but very long-winded...

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2014)

INTERSTELLAR was an interesting film to watch. Excruciatingly long at nearly 3 hours, I felt it could have been cut in several places without harming the plot and making it eminently more watchable. I know some here will disagree with me, but that's how I felt after what seemed a very long time spent of sequences involving wormholes, black holes, etc. that could have been condensed.
Performances by everyone in the cast were extraordinary and in some cases Oscar-worthy.
The future of our planet, as painted hauntingly by the film, was fascinating to me and one of the better aspects. I also loved the scene in the school where the parents are told that the books they have raised their children with are "Federal" and therefore undesirable as they purport the moon landings in 1968 to be real instead of a huge, government-perpetrated fake, as the future apparently will reveal according to the beautifully satirical scenes in the film.
Some of the special effects were wonderful, and generally the film was enjoyable, but I overheard many leaving the theatre wondering aloud if they had actually enjoyed the film or not, and, due to the incredible and unnecessary length, I had to wonder the same thing myself.