Interstellar

2014 • 169 minutes

About this movie

With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan ("The Dark Knight" films, "Inception"), "Interstellar" stars Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey ("Dallas Buyers Club"), Oscar winner Anne Hathaway ("Les Misérables"), Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Bill Irwin ("Rachel Getting Married"), Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn ("Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"), and Oscar winner Michael Caine ("The Cider House Rules"). The main cast also includes Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, David Gyasi, Mackenzie Foy and Topher Grace.

Ratings and reviews

Simply put, this is one of the best movies ever made. It won't please everyone, but I thought it was perhaps one of the most visually stunning, thought provoking and intelligent movies I have ever seen. Christopher and Jonathan Nolan are masters of their craft. Hans Zimmer lends a powerful, evocative, emotional score that worked perfectly with the entire theme of the story. The story is well written, original and although it may take a fairly basic understanding to fully grasp certain scientific concepts in the movie, most of it is explained in the film. The visuals of the wormhole in IMAX blew me away; that particular scene was pure artistry. I am surprised not many viewers picked up on the spiritual aspects near the ending of the film. The movie was not meant to be 100% science and logic. It was based on fact and theory up to a certain point in order to emphasise our current understanding of the known material reality, but Nolan also drew from artistic license and expanded upon a more immaterial, ethereal ending to try and visually conceptualise the 5th dimension and his idea that love, as a powerful human emotion, can transcend time and space just like gravity. There were spiritual motifs and philosophical concepts towards the end of the film that were there to help push the viewer to think and question themselves and their own reality. That's what Nolan does. He creates thought provoking works of art. Alot of viewers obviously missed that though, which is a shame because this movie deserves to be recognised as one of the greatest.

If you're looking forward to blockbuster you can just absorb, you best steer away from this, you need a slight understanding of quantum mechanics, oh and it has a poor audio conversion, recorded in 7.1, then bizarrely converted to stereo,...poorly, the action is to loud and the conversation to low. The film also pops in and out of Imax, which is incredibly distracting, to see a letterbox keep apearing and disappearing.. Disappointing, this is No Inception.

This film started off with a very good premise. It had perhaps one of the best story lines out in years.I wont give too much away but the Earth is dieing and we need to find a planet that can sustain life. I even enjoyed the plot twist and shake up but the ending put me off big time. The cast are superb right up until the ending. I am sorry but this gets a thumbs down from me.