Absurd

Rating: 1/10 (15 March 2015)

I was very disappointed after seeing this movie. Especially after having read so many positive reviews. The portrayal of physics and astronomy here is so pseudo-scientific and so preposterous that I found myself constantly sighing or scratching my head all throughout the movie. I don't have a degree in astronomy or any other science field for that matter but the scientific freedoms that this movie takes are so incredibly blatant and obvious that even I found myself bothered by them. Even for a sci-fi it's far too liberal in this regard.
But that's not the only problem with this movie. The characters are paper-thin... and the way events unfold is often irrational or portrayed in a very contrived manner. For example, an Ex Nasa pilot stumbles upon a secret NASA base (which he found by interpreting strange dust formations into binary code which he then somehow immediately knew were map coordinates - makes so much sense, huh?) where he is immediately offered to pilot their only rocket which is to save mankind and is to launch the FOLLOWING day, because all their pilots are inexperienced and have only flown in simulators, whereas the protagonist has flown before, MANY YEARS back, and only BARELY leaving the atmosphere. But that's fine, they're sure he can manage an intergalactic journey, involving many years of travel, deep-space hibernation, traveling through a wormhole and finding a new world to save mankind. No need for any training or a medical check of course, surely he'll be just fine, he just needs to show up tomorrow for the launch. Incredibly, when our hero performs the greatest feat of space exploration ever - traveling through a wormhole, he and his crew-mates just play it cool, the feat is given no more significance than a casual stroll through a park. There are quite a few other examples too where the plot is painfully contrived and makes the whole movie difficult to take with even a bit of seriousness.
Another thing that completely broke the immersion was the very unscientific language that was used all throughput the movie. A movie that was supposed to be about space exploration and science... You'd have to be mentally challenged to actually believe that this insultingly simplistic chit-chat resembles anything close to actual scientific language that high level NASA scientists, professors and engineers would use. This is nothing short of an insult to our intelligence...
I'll end by saying I really fail to comprehend how people claim this to be the best sci-fi movie ever... It seems to me that we're stooping lower and lower in our expectations of what makes a film great. It's almost a standard now to expect a movie to be bad when reviews are surprisingly positive.