A most confusing cinema experience!

Rating: 5/10 (25 November 2014)

I get all the gobbledygook stuff about the fifth dimension aliens and about time/space continuum and growing old while those back on earth didn't age or visa-versa, but what the heck happened with the guy they found on the cold world? Did he just go crazy or was he jealous of Matthew M, or was he just trying to save all five thousand embryos?
I mean what was the big lie that Michael Caine, Ann Hathaway's father supposedly pulled on them all? This film was visually fascinating, even spectacular in certain parts......but the parts had a very hard time sticking together. Generally a vivid Sci-Fi addition to the film genre, but hopelessly messy and convoluted with enough plot holes to run a black hole through! HA!
The visualization of the aliens fifth dimension which they manipulated to three dimensions so that Matthew M could rattle the bookcase back on earth time/space continuum was pretty cool, but what was the secret mathematical formula that Murph, his daughter was finding or found? Did what she accomplish make it possible for earthlings 125 earth years later to be living on a giant circular tube like in Rama? And why oh why was this "new Earth" named after old Murph have to be out at Saturn not in an Earth orbit?
Nothing was very clear. Would recommend you wait and get it from Netflix. It would be substantially cheaper and you would be able to go back and forth to see if you could understand it.
Many other elements of this film bothered me. Why spend the first hour or so on a rather teary eyed Matthew M crying"I must go to the stars", but daughter Murph can't or won't accept this and everyone is both mad and sad. It all takes place on an Earth far gone into a kind of encroaching desert complete with endless sand storms and the failure of all crops except(if you can believe it) corn! All of this subplot could have been handled with a 10 minute introduction.
Through out the film there is an underlying element of sadness. It doesn't help that there is no humour, no romance, no chemistry between Matthew M and Ann Hathaway. There really is, in my opinion a real problem with the entire script. The longer it's been since I've seen this bloated, complicated and seriously flawed film, the more problems I find with the film.
It simply amazes me that serious film reviewers find this film so radiant and uplifting. I mean the final "message" this film seems to deliver is that there is nothing that love cannot conquer and that it is the only thing that ever matters. Gee I thought that most humans with any intelligence and sensitivity knew this already.
5 out of 10 Stars because of the really super special effects and the fact that the film makers finally understood that there is NO sound in outer space!
Finally I paid $15.00 to see this in an Imax theater and what a waste of good green.