10 Reasons Critics Are Calling Interstellar A Disappointment

9. It's Too Long

It's frequently said that no good movie is too long and no bad movie is too short, or that film critics simply say a movie is too long when they're bored and too lazy to really explain why they don't like a film. That said, a number of reviews have singled out Interstellar's meaty 169-minute run-time as a key reason why the movie suffers: it ensures that the majority of the issues on this list are repeated and dragged out for almost three hours, whereas with a tidy 120-130 minute movie, the flaws might have been more tolerable. USA Today: "The film would have benefited from more judicious editing...Monotonous stretches in space undercut the story's time-bending grandeur." Forbes: "The picture rushes into space only to slow to a relative crawl once it gets there...Very little happens in the long second and third acts." Movie City News: "40 minutes of this movie could have been stripped away and improved the final product by 60%/70%." Screen Daily: "Sometimes succumbs to its own self-indulgence." Popular Mechanics: "The movie has a rambling quality that is hard to shake."