15 Awful Endings That Ruined Potentially Great Films
15. Interstellar (2014)
The first in a series of films based on or related to space that have made it onto this list. Space proves to be a film-setting that has very limited creative scope. Then again it could be that writers of space sci-fi tend to create a series of escalating problems for their characters and only have a limited number of solutions to get them out. That being the case Interstellar, as we have come to expect from the Nolan brothers, is particularly innovative. They are the filmmakers who came up with the idea of doing a film backwards and a film about going into somebodys mind to learn their secrets or plant an idea. They are a great writing powerhouse. Interstellar was perhaps their most ambitious film yet. It was well shot and they kept great human drama at the core of it, unlike many other sci-fi films. But the ending still does not work. The Ending That Ruined The Film Once in the black hole where the fourth dimension disagrees with all accepted rules regarding time and space, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey all hail the McConaissance) can communicate with his young daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy) in the past. But wait, TARS the robot is there in the black hole too and we can hear him but not see him, and then Cooper is alive and wakes up on a space ranch to find that his messages from the fourth dimension saved humanity after all, and somehow he is alive and not crushed into a black hole so, er, what?, dzzzz, fizz. The final moments of the film are overloaded with theory and ideas, confusing the story rather than solving the major plot points, while asking us to suspend our disbelief a few too many times.
