An epic journey in space, so bring plenty of oxygen
Interstellar Predestination Black Sea
In Interstellar, a group of astronauts are sent on a journey through space-time in which ‘every hour equals seven years’. Lucky them. Christopher Nolan’s movie might clock in at a few minutes shy of the threehour mark but boy, does it feel like you’ve lost a decade or so of your life. Loss of life is why our heroes are up there. Interstellar is yet another dystopic vision of the near future. Thanks to diminishing oxygen supplies, crops are failing, and it’s only a matter of time before we go with them. It takes Interminable, er, sorry, Interstellar the best part of an hour to tell you this. Anyway, Nasa boffin Professor Brand (Nolan regular Michael Caine) has a plan to seek out another planet capable of sustaining human life. Only thing is, his astronauts (Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway) will have to travel through a perilous wormhole to have a hope in hell of finding it. Cue a half-hour debate on Einstein, relativity, the fifth dimension, etc – all delivered by characters without a single dimension between them. But boring though it is to watch actors chewing through dialogue they can’t begin to understand, you can forgive Interstellar a lot for its fantastic special-effects. I don’t know what the interior of a black hole looks like, but if it’s anywhere near as thrilling as Nolan’s abstract expressionist blur it might be worth abandoning Earth after all. And we might have to if movies as bad as
Predestination are the future. Ethan Hawke is an undercover agent who journeys through time to prevent crimes from ever taking place. So how come he couldn’t stop this stinker, which also stars Sarah Snook, pictured below, from being dreamed up, let alone made? For more down-to-earth adventure, see the Jude Law submarine thriller Black Sea. The Alistair MacLean-style plotting is tired, but director Kevin Macdonald’s claustrophobic vision of life underwater is fearsome and gripping.