What a turkey!

Rating: 5/10 (4 December 2014)

After reading the reviews I thought I was in for a magnificent treat when I saw this film. How wrong could I be. It was far too long and tedious, particularly in the first half hour or so. McConaughy mumbled his way through it. Why cannot dialogue be clear? Some of the effects were good but some clearly cheap. Extremely unimaginative robots, for instance. Or a shot with a camera fixed to one side of a cardboard looking space ship was repeated several times. There was no variety in the planetary landscapes. The visuals inside the ships were a poor recreation of bits in Alien or 2001 - much pinched from the latter and looking decidedly inferiorto a far superior movie despite it being 45 years older. Saturn looked like a cartoon drawing. The science was pseudo nonsense. Michel Caine was poor. He did not age the same as others. On planet with 80% gravity where actors were moving about as they do on earth then allows them to leap up and down hill with a tiny boost from a jet pack. Ridiculous! Dreadful ending. Nolan should stick to comic books.