Over-hyped Fairy Tale

Rating: 5/10 (13 November 2014)

The opening of the movie was slow, allowing us to relate to the characters well, but the opening of the plot was too rushed. One second we headed towards the hidden nasa base and moments later we take off into space with hardly any clue of what's happening. What ensues is some pointless footage of space drifting with some mumbo- jumbo thrown in now and then with a lot of emotional drama. The matt damon part was utterly ridiculous and it was painful to watch him trying to pull off a psychopath. At some points the movie was so slow, i was forced to look at my watch. All I have to say about the ending was that, the movie must've been in production for too long and ran out of budget and they'd to complete it in 7 days. Conceptually it is ridiculous, (except maybe the earth part), gravity isn't a supernatural element outside space-time, it is a property of space(matter). The rest of the stuff is too geeky to go into. Direction was average and some of the sections were really annoying like who cares if the corn is torched, i just wanna see the grand adventure and don't spoil it by mixing unrelated events. CGI felt bland even in a 70mm Imax. I mean, dude! this is the space we're talking about, there is no limits to imagination, show us some breathtaking panoramas, some dazzling phenomenons of god's playground. Instead we get some helmets bobbing around in a zero- gravity chamber doling out wisdom to each other. Overall verdict : A space Odyssey is a subject that mankind has dreamed, imagined and pursued for generations and there is a rich plethora of source material to pick up from (if you suck at being original) like Jules Verne, Arthur C Clarke, Carl Sagan. With such a subject, when you throw in a name like Christopher Nolan, the bars are raised really really high. I'm utterly disappointed at how the subject has been ridiculed into a cocky drama while nolan's groupies throng the theatres and ooh-aah and pretend to each other that they understand what's going on. Better luck next time