10 Reasons Critics Are Calling Interstellar A Disappointment

2. Poor Editing

Another issue that plagues Nolan's films is the somewhat dodgy editing: take Batman Begins, which featured choppily cut action sequences, and then The Dark Knight Rises, which didn't adequately depict the passage of time through editing and thus confused people. As masterful as Lee Smith's job editing Inception was, apparently utilising the same cross-cutting technique isn't quite so profound this time around. The key complaint seems to be that, in cutting between space and Earth, Nolan implies that events are taking place at the same time in order to make it seem more dramatic (this was also an issue with this past summer's X-Men: Days of Future Past), when this absolutely isn't the case. Badass Digest: "The astonishing knack for cross-cutting he and editor Lee Smith (who also cut this film) showed on Inception is, frankly, gone. The back-and-forth here is clumsy, clunky, and undermines the tension that Nolan is masterfully building on that alien world." Popular Mechanics: "Nolan employs a cross-cutting technique...that just makes no logical sense here. Nolan wants to remind you that everything is connected, but the technique creates a feeling that what is happening out there and on Earth is occurring simultaneously, when so much of the film's spirit is about the consequences of lost time."