Worst of the year

Rating: 1/10 (6 February 2015)

Once in a blue moon a movie like this comes along. This is the sort of film that makes me question the intelligence of those who like it. The only rational explanation that I can think of is that they know that it is allegedly scientifically sound (that is until the last half hour of the movie) and they don't want to come off as stupid when they say it was bad. I consider my self an intelligent person and it isn't that I didn't understand this film, it's that this film sucked.
The entire movie relies first of all on this ludicrous concept that if a man appears outside a military base saying he was sent by space aliens that they would let him man the most important mission in the history of mankind. I know that Michael Caine addressed the issue of them knowing about the strange gravity patterns but they could not possibly know enough to justify such an extreme action. Besides, he was supposed to be the best pilot in recent memory, why didn't they go to him.
The lunacy does calm down a bit. It is a film with a lot of flash and it is handled by Nolan well. It really is visually stunning and for the next ninety minutes or so we can look beyond the stiff dialogue or the cheesy plot jumps that dot the film but then comes the final thirty minutes when it all goes to HELL!!! What was up with that five dimensional time bookcase tunnel! What was up with that god awful line delivery (no tars, they aren't beings, they're us.) How does he instinctively know how to play with gravity in this tunnel. He heard the message already in the past so why does he think it will work now? And if the beings don't exist, who created this time tunnel, who took it apart, and when it does come apart how do they find him? Does the ship just move into the black hole and see him floating there? And about that black hole, I'm no physiologist but I did go to High School and isn't there a universally accepted phenomenon call spagetification? In short, this is a beautiful film marred by the absolute worst script of the twenty first century. If you don't speak English go see it, it's awfully pretty to look at, but if you do AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE. Rarely do I see a movie that I want to forget. Even the bad ones are nice to be able to check off your list but this film makes me want to take a dust buster to my brain.