Not a Kubrick or a Malick, but a very enjoyable blockbuster with great ambition.

Rating: 7/10 (7 November 2014)

The enormous ambition and downright grandeur is admirable, in a film that at times leaves us pinned to our seats with intensity, or dealing with strong emotional quandaries at others. The feeling of mystery and exploration towards the unknown - wormholes and black holes, are exercises that have never been made in cinema with this degree of scientific approach while displaying them on the big screen with such visual splendour.
Unfortunately, Nolan fails to deliver a deserving finale at the scale of the whole interstellar voyage. Unwinding itself in scientific explanations (Nolan already had the bad habit of providing over-exposition through some of the characters) - which ends up mitigating the whole sense of mystery and subjectiveness; otherwise imagine a "2001: Space Odyssey" where all the characters would be constantly explaining in detail everything that was going on; this excess of exposition contrasts with the convenient lack of plausible science in some moments of the movie, which causes the plot to lose consistency.
On the other hand, although Nolan manages to give a strong emotional side of the film's protagonists, he "forgets" to give any character development to some of the non-leads, being completely insensible towards them in some moments and losing, once again, consistency. Moreover, while some of the characters seem to be present only to serve as "how-to manuals" and exposition, the one that displays more "humanity" in terms of dialogue is arguably a robot...
The final act of the movie was... a mess. I was stunned, but mostly not for good reasons, and found myself thinking more than once: "are you kidding me?".
But I can honestly say I liked the movie, overall. It is a very interesting story; very intense, mainly thanks to moments similar to what we've seen in Cuarón's "Gravity"; a sense of exploration and mankind pushing boundaries, as we've experienced in Kubrick's "2001"; and a plot that might share too many resemblances with... "Knowing" (Alex Proyas, 2009), but this one is not a compliment!
Definitely worth seeing at a movie theatre, but that you already knew!