A science-fiction masterpiece and human adventure at its best

Rating: 10/10 (11 November 2014)

Interstellar is Christopher Nolan's new film and it talks about a lot of things. It offers you emotional feels-trip, a journey through space, time and the limits of what we call reality and It is probably the biggest adventure film I have seen in the last ten years, it has almost no negative points to it. Why? Because it's a near perfect movie, there's no other way to put it.
The film, as many have said, is composed into 3 acts who all feel just in the right place for me. The first part of the movie taking place on earth is important even if I was worried that they we're taking too much time to show it. When the journey begins and where it leads you, you realize just how important the first part of the film was. So as for the story, it has its flaws, just like any space movie it can't be scientifically correct all the time, but who cares? That's the real magic of cinema, you accept to look pass these mistakes and get transported (literally) to another world. Apart from some scientific errors the storyline is complex, well-written and thought-over and allows an emotional message along with a scientific one. This might upset some people but this film was way better than Gravity on almost every point : a real story line, not just a objective of survival; interesting and developed characters, not just a couple of scenes where they talk about their dark past on earth Don't get me wrong, Gravity was a very good film and I enjoy it for what it was, but the problem is that I felt like it was only trying to be a sensational trip in orbit, more like an attraction with a "what it feels like to be in danger in space" sign on it. The only emotion I felt in Gravity was suspense, whereas Interstellar waked up the childish desires of exploring outer space in me, along with a kaleidoscope of emotions that varies during the course of the film. And that's what makes Interstellar, in my opinion, a better film, and definitely one of the best films of this year (standing close to others of course).
Now let's talk more technical : the cinematography was made by someone Nolan hadn't worked with before but he sure did a wonderful job, an excellent one. The space sequences are amazing, some of the best I've ever seen, and the other planets although they kind of resemble earth on some points, felt very real and far-away, I don't now how to put it. Then, Hans Zimmer. Just by the name of the guy you know the entire score is epicness in epic proportions, and as always it works perfectly in Nolan's film because he also does a lot of epic movies, but this one reaches way beyond anything he or anyone has ever done in terms of exploring vast subjects and Interstellar travel in a realistic way. Take Star Trek or Stargate for example : they have Interstellar travel and they use it all the time, it's become common for them, so the epicness of discovery goes away, and it's only with their adventures on other planets and by meeting enemies that the "fun" really begins for them. Here, even if it set in a near future, the characters are discovering Interstellar travel just like us, which doesn't make them so different than us as a spectator. They know more than us but they have to improvise a lot too. And for it to feel real, you need good actors/actresses. On that point, Mathew McConahey really makes a perfect job, he leads almost all the emotion from the film from earth to the neither regions of space, and there wasn't even one scene where I thought he over or under acted it. This guy is seriously talented. Anne Hathaway, apart from being ridiculously pretty, offers a very good performance herself, even though it is kind of a shame that her character felt a little secondary in the story. This film is filled with great actors and it needed to be since it aimed so high in its story. I was delighted to see Wes Bentley in it, just like I was to see Michael Caine and of course that other actor who shouldn't be named because his presence in the movie is a surprise, but he did an amazing job too, and I though his character was one of the most interesting in the story. I would rank him as second best performance in this film.
Now this review isn't going to be extremely long because I feel like it doesn't need to be, when a film has almost no negative points, the only thing I can really do is compliment it over and over and advise all of you the go and watch it. But I would add this : of you really want to feel an "experience" kind of like Gravity, watch it in a movie theater, not on TV. The sound is extremely important in this film and unless you have an amazing audio stereo set at home with a looooot of bass you won't get the same sensations! Again, this is for now the most impressive film I have seen in a long while, and it should definitely become a classic, and Nolan has now deserved the appellation of genius. Just like another guy said here on IMDb, geniuses don't just live in the past, some are making masterpieces right here and now. Kubrick wasn't a genius director because he made his films in the sixties and seventies, he just made great and original films. Nolan is no different.