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As the climax drew near, I kept thinking the closer to the climax the more this movie would redeem itself... but it goes in the opposite direction of that reasoning, and it never turns around. When the school of good and evil was introduced in the film (in a bookstore), I thought hmmm that's a fascinating concept buried in a muddied delivery and I immediately knew this movie is based on a novel that was probably a good novel (hence the concept) but the movie may not be so good. The writing actually gets worse and more cheesy as the movie progresses and it may be entertaining to some, but this is a waste of time in my book. If you want something well-thought-out, well-written, serious, and creative or fascinating... this is not it.

Google user ratings for this movie are bonkers. This is a compilation of movie cliches delivered without regard to believability. The central plot is mildly fascinating but far from original. Several of the twists are childish and cliche. This is a 3 or 2-star movie, but I have to give it a one to compensate for the ridiculous mess out here of unjust high ratings. Waste of time, and if I had known would never have watched it. I was literally deceived by Google users lol. I struggled to complete it, to be honest, and that is not because of its pace. It is actually well or fast-paced in a good portion of the movie... but it is just too immature and childish in its pile-of-cliches "story" to be worth the time in my opinion. Halfway through the movie and I was ready for it to be over. And every twist was predictable, which is not as much of a problem as how cliche and lacking in the skill of selling believability they are. This movie has a positive end, and an intriguing central concept though not an original one.. but the rest can be a lot better. My recommendation: skip this one.

I don't get why this movie has a low rating. A movie this good has typically above 80% Google user ranking. I never played any games or watched any other related productions if there were any... but this is quite a good movie, even if it sets up a sequel for a complete story. Ignore the low ratings. I am glad I did not look at them first. No spoilers here.

I only watched the first episode of season 1 from the Angel Studios website where they provide the entire season for free watching. This was obviously a project by wonderful, passionate Christian filmmakers. But I did not enjoy episode one which is why it would very probably be the last episode I watch. I struggled to get through it to be honest. There was practically nothing in the entire episode from the bible. I am serious, and it's not like I was entertained by the cliche made-up backstories. And when I say cliche, I mean those same patterns of trying to check off those unnecessary happenings and drama of every modern show. More importantly, if you play this for people who are not rooted in the bible themselves, which is practically this generation, thinking as I did that it would be a good way for them to get to know the Gospel outside of reading it in the bible, that will not work AT ALL. In fact, anyone who is not already a committed Christian (these are the people giving good reviews), with solid knowledge of the Gospel story, will be way too bored to get through it, and if they did they will get nothing whatsoever out of this in terms of increasing bible knowledge. AGAIN I ONLY WATCHED EPISODE ONE OF SEASON ONE, and my review applies to nothing else, but that is enough of an indicator about the show. Did not enjoy.

Overrated but quite watchable. I truly get how some people love this movie, truly, and it is watchable for sure, assuming you have the stomach for bloody action movies (plus ample amount of cursing). You might love it so don't decide not to watch just yet. It is fast-paced, action-filled and engaging. But it is way too unrealistic, cliche and unoriginal with it's action scenes and story for my taste. Didn't care much for it personally and I definitely feel it is overrated by audience reviews. Virtually no action movie is truly realistic, but for me to love a movie you have to sell it better than this.

Reading these reviews, I am shocked, absolutely stunned. Maybe when I am extremely bored I would try to finish this movie to see if there is something I am missing, because I just couldn't get far in this. From experience, it seems like a real stretch that the rest of this movie would somehow become amazing, but I see tons of people raving about this. For the much I managed to watch, it was so bad. The pacing , the storyline, the delivery, just bad. Even the acting sucked. I am not much of the acting critic reviewer, but how can people come on here and say that the acting was amazing? Certainly wasn't and is only minor on the list of things that were NOT impressive, engaging or intelligent, if judging by the small chunk I watched. Again, I don't have any reason to believe in any redemption past the segment I had watched, unless they switched the writer and director half-way, I don't see why there would be any change to creativity. Maybe I will edit my review if I get around to watching the full movie. And the only reason I am considering that at all is how mystified I am by these reviews. Otherwise, there would be no chance I would be giving this movie a shot. And I feel completely certainly that I would regret finishing this if I do eventually. Wouldn't be the first time.

Someone said this show has its major eye-roll moments but it is still pretty good. That is the perfect description of this show if you don't want to write a long breakdown. Important Note: if you judge this show by the first episode, you have definitely missed how thrilling this show actually is. The first episode is slow in the middle, and in totality not as rich or satisfying as the rest is (overlooking the eye-rolls). Throughout this show, the cliches are there, the childish conversations are there, the eye-roll moments are there, unrealistic motivations and ideologies that are not sold to a strong degree of believability exist, missed opportunities to make pearls out of some plot aspects are there. BUT, underneath all that (which every show these days seems to have, just as much or more, let's be honest), is a truly captivating, thrilling, interesting, creative, and entertaining ride. And it stands out there. Yes, you may have a valid suspicion that they might mess it all up before they tie the story together (assuming they get the chance to continue to another season, which so far has been denied), but that's not the point yet. One problem with online critics is many times they look at things through some weird lens they have created for themselves in an effort to make perpetuate their ideas about themselves and how insightful they are. They sometimes call great things bad and call bad things good. This is quite true with many of the reviews you will see here. The acting is nothing short of excellent. Simply put it is satisfactory. Any review you see that said otherwise was made by someone who is biased by their own self-created lenses. Happens all the time, no worries. Finally, although the story is engaging (IF this genre, as in sci-fi action superhero stuff, is your cup of tea), this is not a show that is clean from adult language and context including implied sex scenes. And it is definitely not lacking violence. However, it's definitely not one of those shows that seem to have an agenda to put a lot of adult language or scenes. Rather, adult content is here and there, but it is present. And though violence is readily present and graphic, it is not unnecessary or gratuitous, it is only relevant to the storyline occurring when it is meaningful to the story. One more tining. Without giving much away, I was annoyed with the lack of believability of "the code" regarding killing and I was turned off by its insistence. But now I get why it is a part of the story. This aspect was probably a major component of whatever comics this show is based on, That is not an easy pill to make work in a serious film, because it can easily contradict common sense. But this is where awesome writing stands to create diamonds out of dust. Almost any plot can be made believable, though it is not an easy feat. This show did not succeed, in my opinion, in making this aspect believable. But this is definitely something that the overwhelming majority of writers and directors would have failed at as well. All things considered, the show still deserves a higher rating than tons of Netflix shows if based on what is a good watch.

Entertaining movie. Slightly overrated in my opinion, just slightly though. Not a boring moment in this movie which is a definite plus. However, the story could be stronger and less cliche. Definitely a ride with all the crazy creatures, funny at more than a few moments, great acting from start to finish by all the actors. Good watch. but it's more like 3.5 stars than 5 stars in my opinion especially if you want something that is captivating, intelligent, rich, inspiring, deep enough to feel moved, realistic-feeling with its plot turns, and so on. The foundational plot for the adventure story feels fresh, even if it's still a guy goes all out for girl center. But it's the plot development or execution of the story that feels cliched, SPOILER ALERT (stop reading now to avoid). I still don't get the motivation behind going through all that trouble that the captain and his crew went through to streal from a colony. Why not join forces, I might have missed something but it was not interesting enough a twist for me to go back. Actually tired of the same human turning against each other twist in movies where the original enemies were monsters or other fantasy/sci-fi stuff . Why do humans end up being the true villains so often in such movies? They make less interesting villains in my opinion but to each his own. Anyway i would appreciate if someone can explain that part cause it didn't make much sense to me as far as motivation especially with the trouble of animating a crab to kill them off. The motivation to kill them off still doesn't feel believable in the first place (again I may be missing something) but then they had them poisoned and could shoot them or burn them up without the giant crab who had a problem killing anyone when it was the good guys but killed all the bad guys in few seconds who never used their guns to shoot it.

This movie takes you on a rich, interesting sci-fi journey (you got to have some knowledge of some of the physics theories to appreciate the sci-fi ride though). Not a fan of the ending of this movie, the final twist with Cooper in the back hole, etc was not my cup of tea. I guess others liked it. Me, not so much. Fascinating movie nonetheless. Would have been better with a totally different, more meaningful plot climax at the end, if you ask me. Also, some aspects here and there were either childish, cliche movie plot development, or obviously bad science (movies use bad science but the trick is it shouldn't be obvious). Not everyone will see it that way, clearly. Still, a truly interesting and engaging movie that kept me interested from start to finish. Great visuals. Nolan is notorious for the low muttering speech thing with dialogue not being clear, at least in 2021 when I watched this, he did that big time on Tenet. I Will never like that but I had subtitles on for parts I needed subtitles, which iI would rather not want on if I can get clear dialogue, because I find subtitles distracting. By the way, the movie is kinda long, just FYI. Interstellar is a creative, ambitious, interesting sci-fi movie that would have had 4 stars in my book with a more satisfying, more intelligent sci-fi plot climax. But that climax that I complain about is only a small fraction of the movie that leads to that point and was a fascinating ride.

Several of these reviews are just flat out unintelligent. I am not a fan of suspenseful, thriller, mystery type of genre, which this movie is, and it's on the dark side too. But occasionally I feel okay about stepping into that genre, just every now and then. With that in mind, this movie delivers for its "genre" effectively, with a creative and interesting storyline that may not be everyone's cup of tea because of the dark mystery, like Twilight zonish, plot. It would be better without some plot holes or extra-ness that was not very realistic, but the weight of that deficiency does not overwhelm the impact of the engaging suspense-mystery Twilight zone satisfaction. Trust me, this movie does not deserve the poor ratings. If you read this review, you are learning 2 things: 1) what type of movie it is so you decide if you want to watch that type of movie and don't go into it looking for something else and 2) if you decide that you don't mind stepping into that taste of movies, then this is a good one. The reason I said that some of the reviews are flat-out unintelligent is because of the "terrible acting" claims made against the two main actors. As usual, people that would make the world's worst actors and directors ever show up and make detailed judgments about acting that are not insightful. If they are turned off by the plot, they will call the best acting horrible acting. But if they liked the movie, they will describe the most childish acting as amazing. That's what is happening here. It is unfortunate when people cannot be objective or insightful enough to separate what it is that they are criticizing and yet speak with such pomposity as if they are making deep sense. Whether the script is well written could be debated. Whether the movie is good is also debatable. But an actor brings a script to life, that's their job, not to rewrite the script to something different that you would prefer. The acting of the two main characters is absolutely stellar, award-deserving really, and any comment that has said otherwise was not an intelligent one, That's just the truth. I am definitely the type who is mainly concerned about the storyline & execution of a movie rather than about acting accolades, because I watch movies to be entertained not to play casting director, but I just had to make that extra point after reading other reviews.