Customer Ratings & Reviews

The product that I was shipped only had a DVD and the digital code. It did NOT include a Blu-ray risk. In fact, the case didn’t even have a spot for a second disk. Very strange because it appeared to be wrapped from the factory, but it seems that it may have been manipulated because the case also has a barcode sticker on the case itself. This was misrepresented by Best Buy.

Overall, disappointing if ambitious film. It introduces some valid and interesting ideas but the sheer volume of those ideas causes So much weight that the narrative of the collapses under them. Ultimately the movie takes the easy way out and provides an unearned happy ending that presents the least of the interesting ideas front and center while discarding many of the more salient points it raises. There's my Spoiler free review. Now, There isn't any way to discuss the film properly unless we head into spoiler territory so stop reading now if you haven't seen the film and plan to. Spoiler alert The film creates a paradox situation with its tesseract ending that allows cooper to send messages to his daughter in the past. The paradox arises because cooper ultimately gives himself the communication and information needed to go on his journey - without cooper having gone through the movie's adventure he couldn't send himself on the adventure. This in and of itself isn't THAT big of an issue as quantum physics postulates that there could be time distortions when dealing with huge gravitational forces like what was being experienced. The tesseract, though, is pure comic book science - a physical place outside of time where you can interact with all time (think vanishing point from dc comics). Still, quantum physics is essentially based in the probability of improbable events so that isn't too offensive a concept. What is horrible, though, is that cooper transmits terabytes of quantum data from the event horizon of a black hole via the tesseract using Morse code. Good thing his daughter who is 9 can decode a morse code message at all, let alone something as complex as quantum data (it's never explained what the "quantum data" is and that term is pretty loosely applied but stil...this information is used to solve a mathematical time travel / interstellar equation so it must be good...all through morse code). The morse code is transmitted to the minute hand of a wrist watch by the way and the hand jiggles with gravity controls by cooper, who also suddenly knows morse Code. Even better is that cooper uses his love for his daughter as his way to anchor himself across time in the tesseract to his daughter. And by the way, any body thinking abou things would Have figured this out when it is shown in the beginning of the movie as a "ghost" in the daughters room. You think that is the dad sending back a message across time to his daughter? Disappointing that nearly three hours later the big twist turns out to be just that. The first third of the film on earth is poorly written too. Time is spent with cooper and his kids tracking down an Air Force drone and taking it but it does nothing in the plot. Cooper accidentally finds nasa and then they decide he is the only person to pilot their mission mere hours before the mission, no reason why he needs to train or anything - he is just a super pilot and can do anything the plot Needs him too. Most of the characters are not characters, they are a means to deliver plot information to the audience (John lithgow's grandpa is the worst offender of this). Finally, the emotional connection needed to pull off this movie simply isn't there. There is zero connection between cooper and his daughter or cooper and brand. And the movie (not) wisely focuses on the love theme leaving all of the various science themes as disparate parts that pop up periodically ultimately only calling attention to themselves as if saying "look how smart we are with this detail." However, those science parts play second fiddle to the "love conquers all" focus of the story and are either become a forgotten element or a far distant second to the main focus. The clunky integration of all these parts is the worst offense the movie makes because at the end of the day, it's kind of boring. The trademark Nolan ambiguity is on full-display here with the possibility that the end is a death-induced fever dream but it's only a suggestion since there isn't any way it could be...cooper HAS to send himself the message or he never goes and hence no fever dream. Unless the messages didn't come from him but from a far developed humanity as is also momentarily suggested. Except there is no other evidence to support that so now we have to write fan fiction to have the movie make sense. One final possibility is that cooper went into an alternate universe, something that is also theorized by quantum physics. Again, though, no mention of that at all so we are pack in fan fiction land. For the record, I had similar plotting issues with the dark knight returns where things simply make no sense and narrative logic is sacrificed for scene specific payoff even if those scenes don't add up to a total that is greater than the sum of their parts. And that is a sad thing about interstellar. It just can't juggle all of its ideas effectively and ends up throwing most of them away so it can catch the "love conquers all" idea. I wanted to really like this film...I love big ideas in movies and space movies often offer big ideas. The cosmos show (both of them) was amazing and I was hoping for a similar effect with this Film - especially after the hype. disappointed that the Big ideas are like chocolate sprinkles on top of an ice cream Sunday - tasty but fleeting. The ice cream, the main part, is the sugary sweet love storyline that ends up not being that big an idea at all. Just my $0.02 of course...

A space movie that winds up behind a bookshelf. And trying to scientifically explain love as the most powerful force in the universe. All very woo woo. I think people pretend to like this movie out of pressure to feel intelligent. Special features are good, Nolan usually puts good effort into his blu ray features even if the film is rubbish.

Matthew's Texas whispering was so annoying. Can't understand unless you crank it up, then something exploded and it's too loud. The plot was too complicated to not hear the conversations. Matt Damon pops up, then Matthew is the ghost, ho Hummm. Some nice visuals but took too long to get to space. Wait for it on cable. Buy Gravity instead!

Mankind is killing Mother Earth, and only Matthew McCoughaney can save us all. The movie is visually stunning, at least...but it’s way too long and doesn’t stick the landing. Disappointing, because Nolan is usually better.

I love this movie but didn't think the 4K added much when compared to the Blu-ray version. I really don't like the Paramount method of online content. I have to use their site and cannot connect it to my Vudu.

The DVD was fine -- great picture, excellent sound. However, the plot was inconsistent. A person in the past is affected by that same person In the future, through time travel. It's like being your own grandpa.

This movie had a great idea but the storyline was slow. I expected a much better movie. It was disappointing.

The movie was disappointing given the quality of actors involved. It seemed disjointed and didn't really hook the viewer.

I think I expected too much as the story was good but took too long and dragged in many places. Also did not like ending.

I'VE SEEN A LOT OF SCI-FI MOVIES AND THIS ONE WOULD NOT MAKE THE TRIP TO A DESERTED ISLAND

Wasn't what I thought it would be about. Need to watch again -- too confusing

took to long for ever thing to happen so was hard to keep me form wanted to shut it off and watch something else

Idk something missed from this movie, maybe just not cup of tea

This movie has many awards and great reviews, but man is it slow to develop and just about too long.

I thought this movie would be a little more exciting, but the plot wasn't good.

this was like watching space 2001 stupid outer space pictures and drag out scenes of nothing

I expected a good sci-fi. That is not what I got. I expected much more from the movie.

I was completely bored by this inert science fiction film

This movie was too slow moving and too long. I will be reselling the dvd.