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Great start...season 1 was well worth watching.... Sure, it takes a little artistic licence but overall believable and well paced....

By the second season, logic and reasons are thrown out and forced action are brought in...

The "killers" can get to anyone, even those guarded by the FBI, US marshals, various Police departments...yet...the one person causing them problems, aka Ryan, can roam around alone without harm and can always be at the right place at the right time to spoil their evil plans...seems none of the "killers" dare to hurt him for fear of ending the series...

Gave this a 4 rating...mostly because the first season was great (would be a 7 or 8 even)...sadly season 2 onwards is unwatchable....they should have stopped at season 1 and the story is still complete...

I walked out after 20 minutes or so...

A family guy, who won't protect his family...knowing that he has skills (no guess work, just watch a further few minutes...) and he could have taken down the 2 robbers without even hurting them...*end of film*...

He rather face his son's scorn, his wife's disappointment and co-workers' ribbing than to take action, but flies into a rage when his daughter's bracelet goes missing? He'll pull a gun and an old FBI badge and a wad of cash to go under cover to find that bracelet? Instead of, say, just buy her another one?

(if they make that bracelet a gift from a dead grandma may help a bit, but the reaction is still not normal...)

This person is just psychotic and once you established that this is going to be more cartoon character than real life, then whatever comes next is less interesting. Plus, how stupid is a person to miss (knowing the time it comes) the garbage truck multiple times a week...and he is an ex FBI agent? Wow, at least this part rings true for that organisation in the present day...

He is too uncaring to be Bryan Mills, too stupid to be Jason Bourne, too unaware to be Frank Moses, too weak to be John Wick, too meek to be Rambo...overall, he's just a useless, unlikeable, psychotic man having an episode....nothing to see here...

Time travel ideas are always fascinating but very difficult to put into a story...

It's best when it is one part of the story which affects outcome of characters in minor ways but to be the main story line creates plenty of problems...

Firstly...can the viewer follow what is happening and how does one know which time line each segment of the story is showing...having to prove/show/explain every segment in terms of time line becomes bothersome and bogs down the flow of any story...(not a deal breaker yet...)

Secondly...plenty of paradoxes to overcome and in a short space of time can be difficult to convince...if not done well, this brings the viewer out of the experience and instead of focusing on the story, the viewer focuses on what the science is and where the script writers got it wrong...and thus missing out on even more of what's (already difficult to follow...) going on...(starting to be a deal breaker if the viewer wishes to follow/understand the story...)

Thirdly...can time travellers affect and change history? If possible, then present existence may be pointless because at any time, someone from the future may come back and change history and we know not how that might affect us and all around us on a daily basis...we become NPC in our own life... Whether this is true or not should be left to expert scientists but for the film viewer, the story becomes less relatable if the point is forced...

For this movie...the action and confusing going-ons might be entertaining but the main story line does not hold up...

There are too many examples of this to list but let me just give one to illustrate my point...

The last part of the movie where the "Time pincer" movement is used...meaning one group of fighters move along actual time line while another group of fighters move against actual time line...and together, they 'trap' the enemy at a specific time point...meanwhile, the enemy is moving along the actual time line...

Now, it would be ridiculous for the group moving against time line to shoot at the enemy...knowing full well that as the enemy moves forward, the bullets will leave their body and go back into the firing weapon...in that way, the enemy will never be hurt and the group moving against time line is just wasting effort...they will end up the fire fight with exactly the same amount of ammunition than they started with and any damage caused will be reversed by time actually moving forward...

Overall, I gave this a 3 rating for the effort and the mildly entertaining action scenes...but based on the story, I'd have given it a 1...having a fist fight with oneself in the past...ha...

A good watch and entertaining overall...Gave it 6 stars but if they had a better, more kick-ass sound track, it would have gotten a 7 or even a 7.5...

Decent acting all round but some minor irksome details could have been better executed.

If one is immortal and knows that fighting is a constant ongoing life style problem, one would likely spend more time learning fighting skills (like they must have spent time learning the latest weapons...and technologies...) But other than Andy, the others don't seem at home with unarmed combat...

If one of their own is locked-up and sunk to the bottom of the sea, none of them should take holidays during any down-time...they would be like those treasure hunters buying and hiring teams of people to search the world over to try to find her. Making money should not be a problem with their skill set but they seem to have given up finding her.

And Andy being secretive about who they are (so we can have the airplane fight scene seems forced and unnecessary...she could explain and the new girl refusing to believe her and the fight scene can still happen...If she finds one person (in 200 years...) who might live with her forever, acting the silent type is a bit strange...we won't even do that with a new house mate, acting all aloof and high & mighty won't make others want to join us...

Other than the above and how weak the security system is at a top pharma head quarters...the rest of the story goes along at a reasonable pace and is easy to follow.

Looking forward to part 2 and if Andy can be alive when Booker rejoins the group... one issue they will have is that will happen a hundred years from now and it'll have to be a SciFi futuristic adventure...not sure they can pull it off convincingly...(think highlander sword fighting in a 'Star Trek' World...)

Nice that a new movie don't overly push woke ideologies and that is appreciated...

Well worth a watch...

Wow... Having been disappointed by the many mediocre "blockbusters" over the last few years... This is one very well made movie...

A mix between the original Star Wars, Game of Thrones with a bit of Troy infused... It's one hell of a ride...

Slightly disappointed with some parts of the story not making sense (although this is just part one so maybe things will be explained later...)... And I'm not a fan of the mixed-in dream sequences (I think it can be made better, like black and white for dreams while "real life" is in colour... Less confusing that way... Or perhaps this was done on purpose??)... Overall though, didn't detract from the story too much...

Despite my criticism...Loved it and can't wait for part 2...

Well done... And well worth a watch...

This series gets a 6 overall...

For the concept and cinematography, this deserves a 7... Well filmed and good use of lighting and colours... The costume was vibrant and eye catching but rather bland after a couple of episodes... Some parts felt disjointed and out of place...

The script in terms of story and logic gets a 6... Some illogical occurrences and lapses in a supposedly tightly controlled environment... Some characters seem to overreact all the time while some felt detached and unaffected..."normal" people seldom react similarly under duress but a few characters do not seem involved...a few act overly cool towards "friends" and a few overly warm towards "adversaries"... Perhaps there were too many characters to properly develop but even the main ones aren't 'likeable' enough to root for... And most of the plot became predictable before the half way mark..

The acting was the major let down for me and scored between a 4 and a 5.... While there were some great moments yet generally throughout, acting weren't believable... Fear and anger felt under whelming, aggression and obnoxious behaviours seemed overplayed... And some characters over act to clownish proportions...a few of the characters also don't feel consistent, suddenly brave then turn cowardly or vice versa...I found most of the characters unrelatable at many points of the story development... This is partly the fault of the script but the acting or over-acting didn't help...

Can't say much more without giving spoilers away... Overall, quite enjoyable but not one where I felt the need to keep chasing the next installment... Continue watching was to just check if my prediction is somewhat accurate instead of a need to find out what happens next... This point is where I feel the series is a let down...

Combining the above assessment, an average score of 5.5 to 6 seems fair... Wish they paid more attention to the details... Game of thrones this isn't, well maybe just a below par season 8 of GOT... "Could have been much better" is the general feeling...

A rather strange take on the Invisible Man story...

If taken at the movie's face value, then this is a mediocre thriller with many unexplained / ridiculous logic-less points... Going with this... This movie gets a lame 2-3 out of 10...

On the other hand... If one can speculate on those plot issues and come up with an alternate explanation (which changes the story entirely...), Then this could be quite a good movie.

Going with my take on what the story twist is... Then the issue becomes the details in story telling... Which wasn't the best in the world...

Nevertheless, with my version of the plot, my rating jumps to 6-7 out of 10... Still many unanswered questions but at least more of the movie becomes relatable...

Spoiler alert...

Going the "face-value" route... There were many ridiculous actions taken...

-- She didn't take the phone from the attic which is her evidence of his existence... -- She jumped down from the attic when she would be safest up there since he can't climb up without lifting the ladder... She has plenty of time to call for help with the phone in her possession... -- The scene at the hospital with CCTV clearly showing she was not responsible for any of the killing... Why run when he already left... -- chasing after something invisible by herself doesn't look like she is afraid of him (something she has claimed from the beginning...) -- only one of the hospital staff with guns would come out to the car park when she (a patient) is running around the place with a weapon... Hmmmmm... -- she finds the absolute evidence in the Invisible suit but she hides it instead of bringing it with her to the police?

Many many more of such things make me believe this is not really how things unfolded...

My take...

At one point, she was shown the picture of the dead Alex, which looks suspicious like how she left him at the end...

I postulate that she actually did the killing at the beginning of the story... Then she was caught by the police, and what we watched is her explanation to the police on what she claimed happened...

She may or may not be crazy but she is the killer and the plot "holes" we witnessed are actually her story telling missing many of the details since she was making it up...

That last scene of her trying to convince James that Alex killed himself is exactly the position she is stuck in... Trying to explain to/convince the police how it happened...

James is just one policeman who reached out to her and she convinced herself that he is her best friend who will side with her...

Unexplained points are still her sister's death (can't tell that story unless she is really dead in the manner told...) And Tom's death (or not)... Plus how she escaped from the asylum... Surely these things can be investigated but let's assume she was desperate to bring the story to Alex's suicide and the lies expanded beyond her control...

This makes slightly more sense to me but still leaves an unsatisfying taste in my mouth... The story is a bit like "the life before her eyes" but messier...

Because there is a really good chance that I am wrong about this... Plus some still unexplainable plot points... I can't go to my own version whole heartedly...

Hence... My rating for this movie will split the difference and land on a 4.5 out of 10...

Really good up till the ending...

Formulaic corrupt-police thriller that has decent action done at a good pace...The development of the story also has enough interesting additions to keep the audiences' attention...

Obviously, the plot twists are known/ expected from pretty much the beginning... therefore, the point of continuing to watch is to see how each character extract themselves from their situations and how the director closes out the story...

In this regard, the closing was done very poorly... There is no logic for him to confront the corrupt Captain on his own and killing cops, corrupt or otherwise, like he is the judge, jury and executioner rolled into one... Just so he can give his "no blood on the badge" speech??

Extremely disappointing ending... Didn't even get the FBI involved...

Would have given 7.5 based on everything that went on until the last 10 minutes... And the ending brought the whole movie down to a 3... So overall, a fair score is around 5 out of 10...

A Stella cast carrying a whodunit will depend entirely on the story... Sadly, instead of "the plot thickens", it thins out unbearably...

Overall the movie was entertaining enough to watch... But the plot was stretched a little thin and the ending was disappointing...

A whodunit works by bringing the audience along to try to figure out the crime and be pleasantly surprised at the big reveal... This movie decided at the half way point that it no longer wants to be a whodunit and we no longer should follow along as it does its own thing... Sigh...

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who truly enjoy the genre..

Spoiler Alert...

Let's tackle the minor annoyances first...

1) The beginning sets everyone out as having a motive to murder... Standard for the genre but here, it stops there...

No building up of everyone/anyone who also had the opportunity to commit the murder... Motive without opportunity doesn't add up to murder...

This means... Before the middle of the story, we have already eliminated almost everyone as the suspect... Which kinda defeats the whodunit plotline...

2) Having a girl who is a witness who vomits if she lies is extremely convenient for a murder detective... And... Surely any investigator will target her for as much information as possible...

Here however, to preserve the big reveal later I guess, they let her off without ever really questioning her...(even Ransom got more information than the investigators did...)

In fact, the detectives were more interested in talking to Benoit and kept telling her to go away after finding out this rather beneficial condition...

This leaves a feeling of a weak plot that cannot exclude her from some crucial events...

She didn't have to witness the suicide... Which in itself didn't add anything to the story... And with that, she could spill the beans on what she did and we can all still believe there was further foul play involved...

3) Marta and Benoit find the hidden tox report after spending hours to chase it down... Yet they can sit down to have a chat after finding it but neither even opened it to take a look?

This gives us the scene where she was about to confess in front of the whole family but was stopped in mid sentence... Drama!!!!

That's ridiculous and again feels forced/false...

4) Walt confronts Marta at her home... He evades the horde of reporters and came in via the back way...

Firstly, a rich guy like him would likely never have to use the back way and wouldn't be able to find one...

Secondly, Walt is the 'boss' of a printing empire and it's unreasonable that nobody in the media recognises him...

Thirdly, he walks/limps with a cane...

Is he really the best person to go seek Marta out under the circumstance? Wouldn't Meg, Donna or Jacob be better suited for the stealth-required mission?

5) Captain frigging America... Emm, I mean Ransom... When he left and came back, wouldn't that be recorded in the early part of the surveillance video? He stopped exactly where she stopped...

Ok, this one, maybe I can accept the reason is he knows the area well and was able to evade detection... Still unsatisfying though...

6) Fran wants to confront Ransom believing he killed Harlan...a woman, confronting a man/killer even if he's not Captain America, surely wouldn't choose an abandoned/creepy location to meet..

What does she think will happen? This is not a slasher flick where dumb teenagers go into the room despite multiple warnings not to...

7) Harlan was in a terrible rush to kill himself...

Marta explained that he will die in 10 minutes... And at around the 5 minutes mark, he will sweat profusely and have some other symptoms...

Wouldn't a normal person wait until the symptoms start to show before reaching for the knife?

Many more minor niggles like Benoit not needing to introduce himself before sitting inside the house witnessing all the 'interrogations'... -There seem to be no other maids or servants in such a huge, well maintained house, that needed to be questioned... -Marta just happens to have a large magnet in her pocket for erasing a video tape... -Nobody who wasn't around needs to have an alibi for their whereabouts...-none of the other detectives see the blood stain on Marta's shoe...

Too many roll eyes moments for a whodunit plot...

Now...

Let's get to the parts that killed the movie/story...

1) Benoit doing his best Poirot... And gave too much details without any evidence...

Examples...-He could simply say Ransom switched the medication.. But instead, he goes into details of how he sucked out medication from one bottle and then from the other bottle... How would he know that?

-How did he deduce that it was Ransom who sent him the cash?

-How can he be so sure that a person with dementia simply didn't mix up 'back' and 'back again'... Very thin even if we can accept the inference...

If he's wrong at any point, Ransom could stop him and the story telling ends...

These plus some other details he brought up without any evidence shows that he is just showboating and not very professional... He should be more mindful of his reputation... And this goes against his persona of being careful with what he says as shown in the beginning...

2) the claim is that Ransom torched the examiners' office the night before... And yet in the morning light (actually around 9am already...) and the fire on that not-large building seem to just get going... In real life, it should be ashes before daylight... Unless it was touched an hour or two before 9am...

Since Ransom was with Marta in the morning, he couldn't have done it...

3) we were told that overdose of morphine means dying in 10 minutes...

When Marta found Fran, Ransom was in police custody and there was nobody else around... She should be the prime suspect...

And obviously, Ransom couldn't have done that too...

4) in the scene where she makes her escape after the will reading...the family couldn't stop her if she wanted to drive away... Richard said something like, what do you want me to do, bite the bumper?(to stop her leaving...)... But when she came out of the car, push through the crowd to get into Ransom's car, not a single person stopped her getting in...

This is of course essential for her to spend quality time with Ransom... Totally unrealistic...

In conclusion...As said... Not bad entertainment (6-7) but a terrible whodunit (2-3)... So around 4.5 overall...

A nice production for those only interested in action sequences but not so great for those wanting closure of the Marvel story line...

The best part of the film is that it brings together all previous Marvel movies to drive the plot... And the worst part of the film is it brings together all previous marvel movies to drive the plot... because it seems the production team don't really know the stories that ran before... Anyone who follows the stories (from the movies, not the comic) will know there are much easier time points to collect each of the stones... The drama created by making this 'collection plan' much more difficult than it needed to be, added at least an unnecessary hour to the movie...

Other plot points that didn't sit well with me and reduced the enjoyment of the movie, are...

1) Thanos 'killed' 50% of the "good guys" and he's hailed as a super villain... Tony 'killed' 100% of the bad guys and he's a hero? Don't heroes learn from their own pain and sufferings and on principal refuse to inflict the same misery on others?

Surely, other than Thanos and a few of his more loyal subjects, the rest are simply following orders... (On another tangent, Thanos seems to really believe in his cause because after he killed off half the universe, including his people I believe, he lived alone and not with an army of servants and subjects for him to rule as a king... That's honourable...)

2) they didn't reverse time... Just brought everyone back with a 5 year time gap... People should not behave normally when loved ones they haven't been with for 5 years suddenly reappear... Those who have survived those 5 years didn't get their memories and aging removed, right?

3) how did Thanos and his gang all time travel while the avengers are so calculative about one person 2 trips?

A 30 second segment showing Thanos instructing his people to mass produce the Pym solution for time travel would have closed this plot hole.

4) always disliked Captain Marvel because she is so powerful that no other super heros need to exist... And still... She is so concerned about other worlds that she couldn't be bothered to be present for the start of the biggest battle her home planet is about to face... when every known superhero showed up at the right time and right place...

And later, the battle actually showed she's not all that great... So her weakness is she sweats the small stuff, can't see the big picture and not available/functional when needed?

4) If they can bring back Gamora, why can't they find a timeline to bring back Natasha and even Tony? Superheros really don't like to plan and think things through... (Same as when they don't seek the easiest points to retrieve the stones... With zero time pressure for planning...)

5) speaking of Gamora, the Gamora who came with Thanos don't know the guardian crew at all... so even though she's not 'evil' like the old Nabula, she wouldn't be friendly like she knows they are the 'good guys'... Based on the time line, she doesn't even know Quill yet... So she should view him and them as the enemy in the battle...

6) Nabula... If she killed her historic self, shouldn't she just drop dead in the new timeline? Grandfather paradox anyone?

7) what's with that special scene where all the women heroes joined together to show their power? To me, that's totally sexist...

Speaking for myself, I enjoy male and female superheros for their individual powers and weaknesses... Once a person reaches superhero status, in my mind, they crease to represent a gender (other than those gender/age stereotypes to generate laughs and endearment...)

Having al female scene shows me that the production team are so hung up on being politically correct that they generate a reverse sexist scene to feel they are all inclusive... Sigh... These same people want a female James Bond / Indiana Jones but not a male Mary Poppins / Eliza Doolittle... And they think the rest of the world is sexist... The self proclaimed tolerant and inclusive are starting to paint themselves into a corner...

8) while it's nice to see Bruce and the Hulk getting along...an unangry Hulk takes away what makes the Hulk a character...

Remember these famous words? "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry"... that's gone now... Sigh...

9) speaking of which... Why on earth would the Hulk go into battle in an amour suit? Surely that was made for Bruce when the Hulk refused to come out to play?

How would the Hulk fit inside and why would he need it? That's taking power away from the Hulk and it pissed me off...

10) if the Ancient One knows and sees all possibilities... Even knowing when Dr Strange will show up... How did she not see the Hulk coming to ask for the stone?

11) Loki's escape with the tesseract surely would have spun an alternate time line... Since there is only ONE tesseract... Then much of the previous stories wouldn't really make sense if Loki had it almost immediately after he lost it ...

12) Captain America basically anointed the Falcon to be the next Capt? *Roll eyes*...I think the Falcon already has a lot going and Bucky should be a better successor... In any case, we won't see Thor succeed the iron Man suit because he doesn't really need the extra edge... Bucky is a super soldier in the same vein as the Capt. And should have been his first choice for a successor...

13) did Captain America just ignore world events for the last century while he hid with Peggy? (& what did he do after she died... Surely she can't live as long as he... Wouldn't he simply come back to the 'present' having enjoyed a full and loving life, and not yet as old as he became?) ... The Production team might wish to rewatch Highlander...😋

He never got the itch to help the 'current' Captain America fight injustice? He resisted the urge to pass on information that might help the avengers as he had lived through all the events before? (I know, I know... Can't/shouldn't change history... But how could he resist, for someone like him who loves to lecture and lead?)

14) the biggest plot hole of all and the one that buried the movie for me... is...

The Thanos that was in the battle came from before the previous movie right? (Infinity war)...

If Tony Stark kills Thanos in this movie... That means none of the previous movie plot could have happened... Nobody was "killed off" (not even Loki...)... Nobody lost/gained 5 years of their lives... Thor didn't need to get fat, none of this movie should even get started...

That's the devil when idiot film makers dabble with time travel in a non-time-travel movie... Adding this means they can't take care of the details properly...

The above are just the main plot annoyances... And there and many other smaller ones which prevented a truly epic movie experience...

3 hours is a long movie and much of it unnecessary if they tightened the plot to make more sense...

So, while the movie is good...I wouldn't selectively watch it again... Which to me is the benchmark of a great movie.

I'm torn in giving a rating... I want to give 7 based on the scale of the production and emotional ties it has on me from all the previous Marvel movies...

But the constant I'm jolted with throughout the film killed much of my buzz and for that I want to give it a 2... S

to be fair... it'll get a 4 overall to balance both sides...

It's funny maybe for 12 year olds...

Too scary for kids but too "Tom & Jerry" for anyone older than 13...

Perhaps it's made for the unthinking but if compared to the many Marvel movies, this is terrible.

What a waste of time and money...

Amateurish... Poor script, terrible acting and stale stunts plagiarized from decades ago... Costumes are a joke when everybody in a poor neighborhood are dressed in brand new clean clothes, every single person, all the time...

Flight scenes are like tango dances without fear of anyone getting badly hurt ... two guys will stand and posture and look intensely/admiringly at each other for far too long before a fight resumes (Sigh... They act like they should just hug and go get a room...)... All are super humans , a wooden chair smashed to the face is but a minor inconvenience...

The bad guys try too hard to act tough with their over don't expressions and the good guys try too hard to look cool by being expressionless, both sides failing miserably...

Not even worth watching on a free download... Your time is better spent sitting in a park watching clouds change shape...

Absolutely love this epic tale. Not many movies can bring me through the full range of my emotions in a short space of time...and totally awe-inspiring as well.

Being a Queen fan, I am fully aware of the history and what should or will transpire...yet it didn't detract from the experience at all. My friend watching with me didn't know who Queen were, and he fell over himself praising what we had witnessed at the end.

Would have given it a 10 out of 10 if they didn't mess up some time line and music choices...still... it would have been even more enjoyable, I believe, if one is not aware of the incorrect time-line of certain songs and music.

Based on a true story and beautifully executed...Freddy and Queen are legends...and thanks for sharing this experience with us.

Absolutely brilliant and highly recommended!!

(Only consideration is...unless you have a fantastic sound system at home hooked up to the screen...watch this in a cinema...the immersion factor is unreal.)

9.5 out 10!!!

Spoiler alert...

Don't read before watching... Or read if not planning to watch... I'd recommend the second option...

The family knows that higher sound levels will hide the lower sounds... And the father actually showed the son how they can yell and shout beside a waterfall... Any sane group of people would immediately think... Hey... What a wonderful place to live at... We can talk and do normal things as long as the waterfall sound can mask it...

The father has a whole range of electronics and showed he knows how to make them work... Maybe it's just me... But I'd have my fun with the aliens by hooking up a hundred speakers all over the place on top of trees and under rocks etc... and then sit on the silo making each one make a sound alternately... By making some sound on one, then a minute later sound another a few miles away and on and on...the entertainment would be watching the aliens rush to one and then to the other until they run themselves dizzy... When the entertainment is over... They can all go back to their waterfall home and laugh themselves silly...

If the movie followed this plan... It'd be done in 20 minutes... Assuming the first 15 minutes are needed to set up the story... And even we can only handle watching aliens run around in circles for no more than 2-3 minutes... The last 2 minutes are the family back at their waterfall laughing and joshing about the day's entertainment and eating as loudly as they please...

So there... Was going to give this movie a zero... But I like Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow...so it gets a 2...(in that one, she kicked arse... In this one... Not so much...)

Have been waiting for this for ages...

But was so disappointed by it.

Really sad that movies these days will always choose to meet the lowest level possible...and Hollywood seem to have forgotten the difference between smart funny and mindlessly stupid... many of the scenes might be considered funny if this were a cartoon...and even then, it'd be a stretch for anyone older than 7...making the audience cringe uncomfortably is not humour...

CGI does not make a movie when the story is forced, the jokes are lame (in this case, very lame) and realism in the story setting doesn't even hold true...

Johnny Depp could be so much better but I guess he took this as the latest large paycheck with little or no interest. The two younger leads tried and fail to carry the film. Very little chemistry between the cast members...just badly done.

Disaster all around...wouldn't even watch it for free if I had known...I want my time and money back please... 2/10

Great start and I was riveted for the first 20 or so minutes...then the plot fell over from a lack of logic and slid further and further away from reality.

If the whole story was crap from the start, just from the filming and acting, I might have given this a 3 or even 5...but for something so promising to turn bad from just before the half way mark was extremely disappointing and frustrating.

As said...the beginning was nice and though there were some misplaced work ethics and contradictions, it was acceptable and we can put them down to human character flaws...

Some examples of what killed it for me...spoiler ahead...

The commander decided to not come back in to the station and instead leave the creature outside...why didn't she just push herself away...she should know that in space...a light push will keep her going forever...instead, she allowed the creature a chance to cling back onto the space station...heroic maybe, but not smart (a non-scientific-minded commander of a space station?).

Miranda and David found out that they can track the creature's movement. At that same time, Sho is still hiding in the sleep pod and to them, he is still missing and without comms...wouldn't the immediate normal human (team)reaction is to find and bring back the third last surviving member of the group? They trapped the creature in one area. Shouldn't, wouldn't they try to 'kill' it when it is trapped? No...doing something would be more taxing than just chatting with each other.

The part where Sho opened the door to the 'rescue' shuttle and air started rushing out...all three of them looked like they were hanging on for dear life not to be 'sucked' away...yet once they decide that Sho is dead and lost, the two of them can scramble away like normal zero gravity...huh?? Were they just acting out the struggle with rushing air? In the same scene...many people have died and their anger and repulsion for the creature is well known...yet, when the creature crawled from Sho to Miranda, she kept on holding him to allow it to crawl onto her...try that with a rat or a spider and we all know that it is not normal for a person repulsed by something to keep holding on like that... Instead, Sho must act the hero to rip the creature back onto himself to save her...if he had wanted to save her, he should have let go when he realised he couldn't shake the creature...

The creature was floating around outside the space station for quite a long time...but they decide at the end that it needed oxygen to survive (like humans? can we float around outside a space station for more than 2 minutes- even assuming we can handle the decompression like the creature can???) and in fact would hug an oxygen producer is laughable...please...before filming start...decide if the creature needs oxygen!!! (or love oxygen in fact)

David put the escape pod into manual mode so that he can fly himself and the creature out to deep space...and while I understand the creature is very smart and learns quickly...but so quickly that it can fly the escape pod back for a re-entry? Wow...a half degree off would either skip the pod back out to space or dive too steeply and incinerate the pod...but it did the improbable...perfect re-entry control without lessons or prior practise....frigging brilliant...

There were many more like these but I lost interest not much later after the commander died and the rest preferred to cry instead of dealing a serious problem...so didn't register much of the less glaring...

A possible Alien level movie failed by poor scripting and story...could have been a real classic...but sadly no...Hollywood's thinking that we must like space movies because the CGI is impressive needs to change...they should have a re-look at Alien, Sunshine, Moon and The Martian and understand that space can be a great movies backdrop but logic MUST still be strictly earth-bound if it involves humans...

Not yet offensive to the intellect but just sad and unrealistic.

For the budget and start power... This was a total waste of time.

I so want to like and enjoy this movie... But I simply couldn't...

Over the top acting...

Unrealistic story line...

Lousy interactions...

Even the bad guys are terrible at being bad...

Batman... Hahaha... Utterly crap and needs a new bat-suit... This is an imitation Batman I need 10 lines but can't think of anything thing remotely decent to say about this movie...

Oh... Will Smith... Missed the disaster of independence day but crapped out here instead...

To anyone reading this...I implore you... don't waste your time and money... Don't even watch it on TV for free... I'm certain you'll find more joy watching grass grow...

1.5 out of 10... Some OK explosions...

How stupid do the script writers think the viewing audience is?

If the movie were made for four year olds, it would be an insult to their intelligence....

Great first 10 minutes or so then we are expected to leave logic and believability behind...

Making no sense doesn't seem to bother the director and producers...

The sphere can set up a planet to teach all other civilizations how to defend against the bad aliens...and it's credentials for doing so? Their planet got wiped out by said aliens and even the lower intelligence earthlings, using replicated, imitated weapons ripped from the bad aliens can shoot it down over the moon...yeah...great teachers they'll be...

The Queen can survive a fusion bomb blast but her shield falls under minor weapon fires...

The Queen can control all the alien ships but yeah, let the two hero's craft shoot at her for fun before taking over control...

And having all her fighters surround her...I guess to offer her protection...but they just kept flying round and round like an amusement park ride when the two rogue fighters decide to attack her...

An ex president's daughter who no longer flies can just commandeer a fighter...to fly alongside her father, who couldn't walk properly in the beginning of the film but can still fly a new age jet...all the air forces around the world obviously overdoing their pilot screening a tad...

The list goes on and on...I can't be bothered to write them all down or I might be writing an entire new script or story line...

I want my time and money back...as well as compensation for ruining my fond memory of the first film...

Really liked this movie.

The feeling I got at the end of the film was similar to after watching The 6th sense...that I had to run the whole movie through in my mind to rethink what I missed or misinterpreted.

The story took me in from the start and never let go until the end. And while none of the usual categories will win any award, the whole had enough balance and grip to keep me on board for the ride...and what a ride.

As entertainment, it was excellent and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys thinking the story through while it is being told...and long after...

Look forward to watching it again to check if I missed anything.

Really enjoyed the first part of the movie...got me on the edge of my seat for the first half hour...and from there, hooked me into the plot for the rest of the ride...

What kinda spoilt it for me was Gary Oldman's character...someone who is supposedly quite high up in the CIA, acting like a little child throwing tantrums in almost every scene he's in is frankly ridiculous and unrealistic. That he is always one step behind doesn't help too. Could someone so incompetent and with such poor human interaction skills rise up so high in any bureaucratic organisation? A tad over-acting on his part perhaps?

Other than that, the film was very good...until the end.

I wish they left Jericho the way he was...let the memory fade and everyone goes back to their lives as before...forcing a 'happy' ending is the weak link in the plot. What is she suppose to do with him now? Or him with his new identity, for that matter?

It is sci-fi...not a fairy tale...making one little girl happy took so much from the plot that it didn't make sense to me. Even showing that he didn't relate to the little girl at the end and the guy in the jeep had to put Jericho down would be a better (more realistic)ending...

Nevertheless...I enjoyed the movie and would recommend my friends to watch it. Good job Kevin...almost forgot that you're still around.

Easily 7 out of 10

The movie and story started well and in fact was enjoyable throughout.

One problem with so-called 'chick flicks' is they try too hard to end it like a fairy tale...which negates trying to build the characters at the beginning. No story in real life ends happily ever after in all ways...trying to close off all loops in the nicest possible way leaves a sour taste for me because I feel cheated that I bought into the story for so long...

I'd still recommend this movie though, as I found it enjoyable for the most part...just not the ending few minutes.

It's a shame really because the first hour was great and I started to care about the characters...but by the time I walked out of the cinema, there was a mild annoyance of even bothering to care...

Overall, this is a solid 6.5

Nice...

Interstellar and Gravity crew and cast...pay attention and learn...This is how to tell a story...

Being science fiction, I'm sure there are plenty of plot holes...but...when the story telling is gripping and the characters are people the audience can root for, we usually won't care as much and more willing to be sucked into what's going on....

Didn't even feel the time pass...that's a true test of a good movie...

Entertaining and absorbing, I'd recommend any sci-fi fan out there...scratch that, any drama fan...scratch that, any movie fan to go watch this...it's a gem...

Easily 8.5...

Firstly, I quite like the movie in terms of visuals and the sound track. About 10 minutes in though, I find myself wishing for sub-titles as the actors' voices are inaudible. (I like MM but where is Clooney when we need him?)

Now, the story idea is not half bad except Nolan misunderstood the meaning of Sci-Fi...the fiction part of 'Science Fiction' refers to the science portion of a narrative, not the human story. Leaps of faith can be justified with stretching science, especially in areas not fully understood/known by people. The human part of the story has to be true for the audience to relate to (unless there is a setting in the story for human evolution that makes them different to what we are now.)

Too many illogical human behaviours are just strung together to move this along and I believe Nolan hoped that the great visuals will distract us from thinking about what is going on. I will highlight a few that ruined the movie for me, even though plenty more were present. Watch out...spoilers below!

1)Murph had experienced the 'ghost' from a young age yet didn't know who it might be; yet, when we find out that the 'ghost' is Cooper, she suddenly comes to the same realisation?!? That is of course essential to the story or otherwise she will not take what he transmits seriously, yet there is no reason for her to link the 'ghost' to her father. He could have easily added a message of 'This is your dad' to her, but he never did; and even if he had, it wouldn't work with the younger Murph...if he had located the older Murph (when she was retrieving her stuff), then maybe it will make more sense...very lazy story telling here as it could have been easy to add (maybe 20 seconds of screen time?). This one thing is key to the later part of the movie and without it; the movie couldn't go along the lines it did.

2)Assuming we accept that Tor and Cooper did work out the mystery of the black hole that relates to their calculation and he transmitted all the data through her watch. Even if she did figure out that it's a message from her dad (or from someone important), she wasn't paying attention to the message. It is like tuning in to a radio talk show (on serious maths no less) mid-way through a program, there is no way for her to decipher the full message if she missed the first large chunk of what was sent.

3)He knew that the message 'Stay' wouldn't work to keep him on the ground. Shouldn't he try a different message? Of course, that would change history and likely Nolan didn't want to go near this paradox...but this is Sci-Fi and I'd welcome the debate that would bring...instead, he rehashes the same old, knowing it wouldn't work.

4)Young Murph was understandably upset with her dad when he left...but she becomes part of mission control? Hang on...she has firsthand knowledge of what her father is up to... she knows about plan A, Plan B and the importance of the mission...yet, she wouldn't send him a message? If she became someone outside the scientific field, I can at least accept her continued anger, but putting her in mission control makes it unacceptable. (She should at least be so upset that she wants no part of a mission control which sent her dad away. Otherwise, she should understand why he had to go. )

5) Murph has a space station named after her so she has some cloud on 'her' space station. When she suggested that Coop goes to Brand, she could help with getting him a spacecraft. Instead, he had to steal one...really? Security is not a concern in the future? A guy who has been out of the loop for almost a century just walks into and starts up a craft, knows all the correct codes to open air locks and even the way out?? (Maybe unlike now, aerospace technology does not improve in a century?)

The above really killed the movie for me.

Sidenotes:

A) If according to their plan, skimming just outside the gravity field to go into the water planet quickly, they surely didn't spend 3+ hours there. How did it translate to 23 years? (Well, I spent almost 3 hours watching this nonsense, so maybe it is possible. Not in the way it was shown though.)

B) If all of Cooper's electronics failed on entering the black hole, how did TOR survive? TOR is fully electronics! Poor story telling as this could be explained under sci-fi rules yet wasn't done.

C) Why would Murph travel 2 years to the space station, with all her family in tow, to visit her father...yet on seeing him, sends him away?

D) Dr Mann and Cooper walked to the edge of the cliff...yet Brand takes a few minutes on a spacecraft to reach there? She took so long that Dr Mann had the time to WALK back to the station to board the other spacecraft, before they FLY back. Ridiculous! (Nolan, this is not a commercial flight... flying cannot be so much slower than walking by any stretch of the imagination.)

Overall, without a logical human story, Interstellar is just a decent visual and sound show...its almost 3 hours play time is too long when audience is not absorbed into the tale.

I gave it a 5 because I did enjoy some part of the movie (the effects and sound), otherwise, it would get a 3.5 out of 10. Almost 3 hours in a cinema is way too much for this lazily told story. (Plus, there's a chance you'll age 23 years.) I sure wouldn't watch it again.

The first 20 or so minutes was promising and I was gripped by what might unfold...then it fell apart with too many illogical and unrealistic actions by (supposedly normal) people to 'force' the plot, which doesn't make for good story telling.

Too many times, the question of 'why is he/she doing that?' pulls me out of the movie sequence and after an hour, I was forced to be a critic instead of being absorbed by the story. To the movie's credit, it kept giving me hope that things will be explained later, but sadly, more illogical actions by the main characters dashed my hopes, and by the mid-point, my mind went to 'whatever' mode and stopped caring about the story.

Very sloppy police work - 10 hours of interrogation of a mentally-challenged suspect, without once bringing in an expert to try to coax some truth out; In fact, all interrogations are a waste of time (All three suspects) and the police seem to be okay with learning nothing; a detective who is a loner and 'rambo' all crime scenes by himself, and never once discusses the case with anyone else; When following a suspect, he allows a truck to keep honking him instead of moving out of the way to stay undiscovered? Must be a new surveillance method; a captain who acts like a security guard on a fairly high-profile case, never once directing his people on the investigation nor ever seemed to be interested in the case; Cuff a suspect but leaves him right beside the main door while going deeper into the house searching various rooms? In real life, the suspect would try to make a break for it, surely!; Shoot a suspect, and being shot in the process, but wait, a child is hurt, so let's not even check if the suspect is dead or call it in, just drive to a hospital with blood obscuring his view. Great, a car chase wouldn't make sense for the plot, so let's add this to pump up the adrenaline. Stupid!; stop digging because the ground is frozen, really? Urgency is not valued in police work. Anyone who has seen even one episode of CSI will shake head at how poor the investigators are at treating the case and evidence. The search scene shows a rather large police force, yet on a case with multiple suspects and leads, 'lone ranger' goes it alone. Conveniently, all the clues are on the internet because the police couldn't link various cases of missing children to find some common treads in a (supposedly - due to the 'redneck' style police work) small community; DNA tracing and finger printing must be too new to this police department so that the plot can keep going without the disruption from truth or logic. The main suspect's parents 'died in a car accident'? Let's not check his background and his parents' names.

Very strange crisis-management/grieving process - one mother resigns to sadness and spends her time in bed medicated; another mother sits at home staring at old photos. Hang on, the children are not known to be dead yet, shouldn't they try to do something? No, it's easier to grief instead of looking. Why is Dover doing all the running around? And, four parents, each seem to do their own thing, unknown to their respective partners, are allowed to carry on. No one wants to 'band' together to discuss how to find their missing children, they just want to rage in their own way. A new family structure? Terrible villains - The priest who knows a dead man is in his basement, but keeps it to himself. Maybe he didn't kill the guy, but a priest is not bound by silence when known crimes are committed (kidnapping and killing children cannot be said to require the vow of silence, surely)...perhaps, he wanted in on the action? But then why let the guy die and then keep the body?; Dover becomes a kidnapper and torturer, in the hope of learning the truth, but he never gives his captive a chance to speak...every time the captive says something, instead of coaxing more out of him, he goes on a yelling rage of 'tell me'...mate, shut the f**K up and listen, maybe he is trying to tell you something. Then he cleverly constructs a box so that he cannot hear what his captive says...this means he only wants to torture the guy and not extract information as the main objective of the exercise; The old auntie seem to be an experienced abductor and child killer, yet wouldn't shoot a man threatening to reveal her true identity...why toy with him when children are her real targets? He is just an obstacle to her pursuits, so shoot him in the head already and throw him into the hole and be done with it...but noooo, we need the last whistle scene to close out the story. She can bound and gag the children when Dover comes to visit, but would lead the detective to the child (With open door no less) instead of getting rid of him before killing the child; and if her real objective is to rage against god by killing children, why keep the children alive for 6 days? Are there 'auspicious' days to kill children that we weren't told in the story? All in all, the movie has enough to keep audiences watching, but their minds must be switched off to accept the story development. Based on the plot alone, there is no reason to watch after the first half an hour. Acting is brilliant when compared to the script and maybe that is the ticket; have a terrible script so that the actors can make use of their talents to keep the audience watching. When I say brilliant, I do not mean good, I just mean it is much better than the script. What a waste of talent on this 'didn't-think-it-through' crime caper.

A zombie movie trying to go sci-fi...lame, predictable and nonsensical. Even my 7 years old nephew laughed at these supposed-astronauts acting all school-child-like and making idiotic decisions...might have been better if they moved the setting to an old mining town, then again, maybe not that much better with the script they have...

Together with Gravity; seems they send just anyone out to space these days.

Don't waste your time on this load of rubbish.

My 2 is given for some effort in costume and the movie set...otherwise, it's a negative 1.