Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)

Much has been made of the greater-than-standard scientific accuracy of the wormholes in Nolan's sci-fi epic, but this also completely ignores the numerous other unsatisfactorily explained implausibilities, starting with the premise that in the near future nearly all the world's crops have died out, and then moving on to set up Matthew McConaughey as the only man to save our bacon by virtue of stumbling onto what's left of NASA so that he can be roped in to pilot a mission to another galaxy. There are spectacular scenes along the way courtesy of the mega-budget but the tension factor in the build-up isn't actually on a par with the much-derided Mission to Mars, the deus ex machina finale owes too much to 2001: A Space Odyssey and McConaughey's Texan mumble is more wilfully incomprehensible than ever.

5/10