Typical Nolan: Movies that transcend your average movie-goer

Rating: 10/10 (9 November 2014)

I would first like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the movie from start to finish. After watching the movie a second time, it was even more enjoyable. This movie had your typical Nolan charm, nuanced dialog that features numerous examples of intelligent foreshadowing and providing answers for questions that are brought up later in the movie. There is a prevailing theme that permeates the entire movie, however I actually missed it the first time I saw the movie because of a bathroom break. It was there throughout the entire movie, but like the last piece of the puzzle, it tied everything together. That's the beauty of Nolan's storytelling, there are so many things that can be discarded as useless, while they actually serve a purpose in the story. When I go into a Nolan movie, I don't expect one thing or another, instead, I watch every scene for what it is and wait for the story to develop in front of my eyes. There were many scenes that I felt were a waste as I first watched the movie, but as the story developed, it became abundantly clear that their role was to serve as an element of good story-telling. After seeing the movie the second time, I was able to pick up on a number of things I missed and the movie does a great job or reconciling most of the "plot holes" that people seem to be complaining about. Again, like other Nolan movies, this movie is not going to be for everyone. If you prefer everything simplified and laid out for you so that even young children could understand, I recommend more of a children's movie or a comic-book movie. If you prefer a bland, almost non-existent story with great visuals, I would recommend a move like Gravity. If you prefer an intelligent story-line with the use of traditional story-telling techniques like foreshadowing, a central theme that permeates the movie in ways you may not fully understand in the first viewing, and that may require you to pay attention in scenes you have yet to understand, I highly recommend Interstellar. If you are someone that likes to nit-pick movies or believes that they are smarter than the movie they are watching and the story-teller who wrote the movie, I would stay away. Chances are you are going to miss key elements of the movie because you won't be viewing the movie for what it is. I have noticed that most of the negative critiques complaining about plot holes actually missed portions of the movies that reconcile those "so-called" plot holes. With all that said, an easy 10/10 and a must see at least twice on IMAX.