Acting, plot, and basic premise are excellent!

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 2014)

(review may contain insights into plot and substance of this movie)
Well, fellow movie lovers....this movie is about as good as it gets here in 2014....if you are a brave soul willing to plunk down $10-$12 and suffer through watching a first-run movie right along with your local, teen-age "Woo-hoo! We're all outta school for Thanksgiving holiday!" crowd. The "giggles and I-Phone" crowd can be a little loud-so don't expect to hear more than a few words of any of he endless 20 minutes of previews. Perhaps that isn't so bad....
Regardless of its success, "Interstellar" is a GREAT, sure-to-be-popular movie, one suitable for most all 12-and-above ages. Don't be surprised to find "We are not alone!".......if you find you and honey-bunny are surrounded by hordes of your local young folks who have descended upon your local Cinema multiplex.
Did I mention this is a GREAT movie? Interstellar is a solid, far above average, (mostly) scientifically-plausible drama. It does suffers a tiny, tiny bit from its longish post-apocalyptic setup premise....but it moves faster as our Hero takes the bait.
Scientifically-speaking, the "end-of-human civilization-as-we know-it" premise depicted in "Interstellar" may be more real than we'd like to accept; our current real ecological breakdown that BIG AG has propagated upon our little, precious planet has now irreversibly affected 40% of ALL available Earthly arable land, which is under cultivation right here, right now on Earth. The abhorrent, deadly, and polluting over-use of super-nitrogen fertilizers is a very real threat, right here, right now, and this movie brings it all just a little TOO close to home. (Hang in there-I'm almost finished with my ecological $.02.)
We've now lost 50% of ALL land animals, lost in just the last 40 years as result of the deadly over-use of nitrogen as fertilizer, and that toxic effect has had resulted in a an even worse ratio of species loss in our oceans and fresh waters, as the nitrogen runoff continues to decimate all biological life. So...How bad is it, really? In the next 50 years, we could lose the entire ecosystem......do the research yourself, and be prepared to be shocked. I'm no Green Peace nutter...just an interested party, so reserve your own opinion...AFTER you do the reading and study.
Interstellar succeeds greatly in challenging our common preconceptions about our base human origins, our communal and collective future as a species, and interestingly, suggests what may indeed be our "purpose for being", as we trundle through our daily lives as 8 billion mere mortal human beings living in congested chaos on our little oasis amid our billion-planet cosmos.
How far away are we from the next habitable planet? Where is it? Could we really travel there? How long would it take...and how much will we age, if compared to our loved ones back on good old Earth, while we are away?
"Interstellar" approaches these questions and more, and supplies some insight.......
All of these questions are approached in a believable way.......although some of the applied quantum physics may be a mite "stretched."
But...no matter! We all go to movies to be entertained! Judge for yourself...and I recommend you go see this movie!
Bottom Line: "Interstellar" is far, far superior to the endless spate of "Us vs. the Aliens" Sci-Fi (slash) horror (slash) fantasy (slash) mindlessness that is clunked our faithfully and cast upon the viewing public, assembly-line style to satisfy our cravings for pleasant escapism and a reflection of our dreams and hopes for the future....movies chock-full of wondrous effects but lacking in substance....the sturm und drang we get every summer. Remember, sadly, Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Campbell, Lovecraft, etc......those fantastic folks just aren't around anymore to weave their fantastic, fugue-state of consciousness wonders; their genius and their uncannily accurate predictions of what humanity may face are sorely missed as we watch our communal scientific reach outward and onward seemingly far, far exceed our ability to grasp it all and proceed cautiously and wisely.
So....GO. GO! GO to this movie...! (Do not pass Go, and do not waste time stopping to collect your $200!) Just go see Interstellar! It will be worth it.
This particular movie really is "can't miss" stuff....and the quality is about as rare and unlikely as a worm-hole suddenly appearing right here at the edge of our own solar system!