Prepare to get your mind blown!
Interstellar is directed by Christopher Nolan, who just happens to have directed 2 of my favourite movies of all time (The Dark Knight and Inception), and just so happens to be my most anticipated film of the entire year. In the film Matthew McConaughey plays a former pilot is a tasked with the mission of travelling through a worm hole in order to reach another galaxy and find a hospitable planet needed to sustain human life as Earth is becoming increasingly infertile and the human race is dying out. Along its near 3 hour runtime Interstellar fantastically explores scientific theories such as relativity accompanied with interwoven themes of the purpose of our existence and our innate extinct to explore, and is a top notch, intelligent and visually masterful science fiction film which I loved.
The film, for a start, is incredibly ambitious. I've read numerous reviews which say that Christopher Nolan was being overambitious with the script and as a result the film did not seem to have a natural flow of events. I respectfully disagree with this as I was intrigued from the first minute to the last and I never lost my grasp on what was going on in the film.
From the get go I was interested mainly because of the way the script and the actors handled the relationship between Matthew McConaughey and his daughter "Murph". The little girl puts in one of the best young performances of the year and, predictably, McConaughey was absolutely perfect. He really hit the note between displaying his incredible array of talent without over-stepping the mark into showing off. He's key in the film because in a science fiction drama like this which explores science fiction on an epic scale, you need humanity to glue it all together and McConaughey does that perfectly.
The supporting work is also very good in the film but my favourite supporting character other than Murph was actually a robot character called TARS, who offers some subtle yet necessary comic relief to the film.
Interstellar is far from predictable and takes turns which I never expected, it kept me on the edge of my seat for almost the entire runtime. For a film to keep you invested for 3 hours, particularly a film which tackles some complicated science fiction content, that's something pretty special in my opinion. Plus when I say its 3 hours, don't worry. The film sets itself up beautifully and explodes into life when they first launch into space and 3 hours goes by like nothing.
Hans Zimmer's score is, also predictably, fantastic and at times gave my goosebumps. The music accompanied by Christopher Nolan's epic direction is really something to behold. There were so many moments where my mouth dropped to the floor as I beheld some of the most amazing visual effects I've seen in my life and some space sequences which blew my head wide open! Its truly a technical masterpiece. I actually heard somewhere that in order to create the (MILD SPOILER) wormhole and black hole sequences, they actually had scientists consult them and create the effects from actual theory. That's crazy to me, and is for sure praise worthy!
My one and only negative for Interstellar is the ending, which I will need to spoil in order to explain it.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
The fault I have with Interstellar is the ending. After Mann dies and nearly destroys Endurance, McConaughey decides that the only thing left to do is fall quickly into the gravitational pull of Gargantua, the black hole. As he falls through it, we come to the scene where I realised just where he was before I legitimately said "No way" out loud. My favourite moment of the film is when McConaughey realises that the wormhole was created by a future race of surviving humans able to transcend the dimensions of time and gravity, where they become physical entities to them. He then begins to move the books off the shelves created by the 4th dimensional space he finds himself in, and whilst he does so Murph realises that "the ghost" of her bedroom was her father this whole time, a revelation I loved.
However, as soon as Murph realises this, the 4th dimensional space diminishes and McConaughey is left floating, before he is rescued by a band of humans, awoken, visits his elderly daughter and then goes off to find Amelia, who is actually recolonizing Edmund's planet via "Plan B". Does that not sound like a lot to you? For me, the ending was too convenient, there was no ambiguity and it felt rushed.
SPOILER'S OVER!
Other than my one flaw, Interstellar truly impressed me. Visually it was astonishing, the space sequences were highly intense, I loved the way they showed relativity and some emotional moments were highly effective. As a science fiction film about space exploration, it's top notch and I loved it:
Rating - A
1 sentence summary - A intelligent, mature and emotional science fiction drama with memorable visual sequences and some mind-blowing moments!
I apologise if you accidentally read the spoiler section, I did my best to separate it from the main bulk of text.
Thanks for reading,
Matt
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