This is a masterpiece.

Rating: 10/10 (8 November 2014)

I watched the movie yesterday at my local IMAX-theater and i'm still in shock on how much this movie impressed me. Never was i glued to a chair for almost three hours straight as much as here.
The film does just so many things exceptionally well, that it's hard to find words for it. The atmosphere is so tense and immersive, i couldn't lend myself to question anything within this amazingly designed world. The scenario of a dystopian doomed earth is told in a remarkable subtle way. Never do you see apocalyptic catastrophes as in "2012", yet you can almost feel this world crumbling to literally dust before your eyes and the pain of the people who know their fate was creepingly sealed while they continue their now almost senseless worldly duties of farming and watching baseball games.
Within such a ingenious set environment any actor could perform remarkably, but the cast does just magnificent, proving their shared 5 academy awards all again. I felt torn apart between all those amazingly believable characters, their motivations and their motives. People who desperately cling to whatever they have left in a ghost of what once was our world. People who take leaps of faith jumping into unknown missions heading for unchartered territories to save whatever they hold dear. People witnessing events incomprehensible to human minds have to deal with unthinkable decisions that push them to the edge of what it means to be human. A gigantic acting task. And yet the cast seems to do it with astonishing ease.
The screenplay doesn't mess around either. So much information is packed tight, the movie could have been three times the length and still make a remarkable tense movie. Hence the story at times appears a bit convoluted, but it keeps its edge. And despite the huge amount of emotional topics being touched on, not once does it fall into any of the usual kitschy Hollywood-clichés and -tropes. Instead it keeps a refreshingly sober, at times almost scientific and documentary tone, which gives so much credence to this world.
So yes, this is simply a masterpiece. Christopher Nolan blew away any reservations in my mind that Hollywood is still able to impress me deeply. This movie instantly went to my top 3 movies of all times.