Intersteller - FLORP!

Rating: 7/10 (7 November 2014)

SPOILER ALERT!!!
HIDE YOUR LOVED ONES!!! THE REVIEW CONTAINS NAUGHTY WORDS ---
Well gee ummm I don't know where to start. Right off the bat the protagonist reveals how horrible of a father he is within the first 15 mins by allowing his son to drive wicked-awesome-like through a corn field in pursuit of a drone, in the process nearly killing everyone by almost having his son drive off a cliff. Sure, this may sound like nonsensical nitpicking, but the whole movie essentially revolves around Coopers love for his children (especially his daughter) sooooo yeah. The second thing I found troubling was the HAL-9000 rip off, which basically was a transformer Lego. Kinda impractical to have a giant square piece of metal on a space ship...especially when he's a sarcastic, know it all, like this douchey reviewer.
Anyhoo, a lot of you will primarily go for the awesome visual effects and Nolan's epic soundtrack which usually consists of little more than a Tibetan horn. If that is the case then you won't be disappointed. However, if you are going to see if Nolan was a director brave enough to jump into actually basing a space movie around...I don't know...basic physics, you may be disappointed. Although it tries, in all honesty, to explain the plot through what I like to call "fizzicks" (movie physics) it does so at a minimum level and ultimately ends up failing. That's when the movie then says "screw you audience, love is the answer, not so much the fizzicks"...seriously they actually claim that "love" transcends dimensions. Ultimately, the movie is more Signs then it is 2001. I do give Nolan credit for the special effects and dropping wicked-awesome Matt Damon in there to fight McConaughey. That was a nice nugget of fun.
On the hole...get it...black hole....the film is not that terrible and is leaps and bounds better then Gravity, whose story was terrible. I'm sure if I analyzed the Inception-like grade of the story I'd find holes in it, but on first glance I'm giving Nolan the benefit of the doubt in that it holds water. The cinematography was OK nothing too innovate, it felt like there were a lot of GoPro shots of the spaceship. The acting was OK, could've done without Anne Hathaway basically crying and moaning about her "space-hornyness". This flick is nothing special, but if you're bored and have some wacky-tabbacy it's not a bad time.
VERDICT: 7.3/10