Film Review: Interstellar

I had high hopes for this film when I heard it was coming out. I really like Christopher Nolan's films (notice how I didn't say love), luckily I was not disappointed. You like space exploration and theoretical physics right? Good, then keep reading.

If you're not across the plot, basically it's the future and a blight is killing all the food on Earth and ultimately us. Enter Cooper (Matthew 'Alright, alright, alright' McConaughey) an ex-pilot turned farmer who stumbles upon a private company's desperate attempt to find and colonise a new planet, thus saving the human race. And Cooper is the only one who can fly their very expensive spaceship.

The film asks if humans were meant to stay on Earth or if they should leave it. It's not all about space exploration, it is also about Cooper's relationship with his daughter, Murph, and if he can make it back to Earth. The cast is stellar (sorry) with Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Casey Affleck who are all solid. There are other cameos but I won't spoil them.

Interstellar is great, it's actually really great. The start explains a lot about the the world instead of just showing us which makes it longer than it probably should be. Once they leave our atmosphere the film turns into an exploration in space where I felt like a kid immersed in the splendour and majesty of space. In the vein of 2001: Space Odyssey and Sunshine the film takes you to other worlds and how humans deal with mind boggling problems in space. It's a great journey that's only let down by numerous plot holes that ultimately brings the film down from a 5 star – ZOMG I loved it! To a respectable 4 star – I really liked it. And so my relationship with Nolan's films continues with great films rather than amazing films. I still recommend going to see it. My advice is not to question it until the credits roll – just go with it.

So, if dust storms, communicative gravity, “aliens”, show stealing robots, convenient wormholes, water worlds, time-sucking blackholes and five dimensions are your thing, then you're in luck with Interstellar.

-Ricardo

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