Good things:
- The soundtrack
- Ambitious concept, the movie TRIES to accomplish a lot and that's commendable
- Some of the visuals. The water planet is such a fascinating idea that I hope they would have spent more time on presenting it and done a better work with the giant waves CGI
- The girl that played the daughter was a very good actress for children actor's standards.
Bad things:
- My overall experience was ruined by the movie being extremely loud and basically being unable to understand 70% of the dialogue (English is not my first language and the lead actor's enunciation is ridiculous)
- Too much time wasted on setting up the stage in the Earth, while spending too little time on showing it as a really decaying world (it looked just like a normal world)
- The scene where the lady at the school says that the Moon landing was fake really detracts from the movie, as you would think it was made to please people from the Flat Earth Society. And it's not necessary for the story at all. Actually, the whole "we are a secret NASA, how did you find us?" story line was unnecessary and IMO it gave some stereotyped/cheesy tone that detracts from the speculative science nature of the movie.
- The role played by Matt Damon
- Too many scenes of the spaceship traveling taken from the same angle, there were probably 10 identical shots of the spaceship, that really bored me.
- The emotional parts weren't convincing. I think that's because you can't go full-blown emotional in a sci-fi movie, so you get the lead actor reuniting with his daughter and 2 minutes later he transforms into Luke Skywalker to jump in a spaceship with R2D2 in the back.
Things I never figured out:
If the lead actor is in the future inside the Tesseract sending the NASA location coordinates to his past self, how did he get to the future in the first place? I know there must be an interesting explanation using relativity concepts but I think the purpose in the movie was to show that "the future they" where able to do that, without really exploring exactly how. Am I missing something?
Overall, I had the same experience than with any other Nolan movie I've watched: I just waited impatiently for the movie to end and get done with it. I think it was such an ambitious project and some of the ideas were so fascinating that the end product could have been more concise