Christopher Nolan's space epic Interstellar

Rating: Null/10 (15 March 2015)

When Christopher Nolan pilots a space mission to find a new home for humankind in his new film Interstellar, you don't expect anything short of a masterpiece. So even if you have watched Gravity a few times already, prepare to be blown away by a sophisticated script that is peppered with ideas about love, longing, adventure, science and resolve — and visual wizardry that lasts for almost three hours.
Set in the future, a global food crisis has rendered America to a dust bowl, forcing most of its inhabitants to return to emergency farming. Retired NASA pilot and widower Cooper (McConaughey) too, spends his time in his farmland with his father-in-law and two children Tom and Murph, even though his real calling lies in space exploration and hoping for a better future for his children.
Cooper and Murph stumble upon a top-secret research station on the outskirts of their town, where they're told by his former NASA boss Dr Brand (Caine) that Earth is coming to an end, but a recent sighting of a wormhole in space might lead them to other planets that could nurture mankind.
Soon thereafter, Cooper leads a group of astronauts to a new world, comprising Brand's daughter Amelia (Hathaway), Doyle (Wes Bentley) and Romilly (David Gyasi), leaving behind his children, who may never forgive him. What they encounter while manoeuvrings through space is where the real thrill of the film lies. While most part of it appears entertaining, Nolan makes you think through the film.
It's in the last quarter of the film that it gains personal dimension, when Cooper realizes that his two years spent in space is equivalent of 23 years on Earth, and his children, now grown-ups Tom (Casey Affleck) and Murph (Jessica Chastain), reveal the going-son of their lives in video messages. Even though it becomes a little sentimental, at no point does the story lose its grit. There is no mistaking that McConaughey holds the fort yet again.
He is also supported by an able cast, especially Chastain who makes Murph so believable. Nolan and his crew, ably led by cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema and VFX supervisor Paul J Franklin ( Inception) and Hans Zimmerman's haunting score, will make you want to revisit this film in the coming days.