A great painter, A grand canvas and A childish doodle

Rating: 5/10 (9 November 2014)

Interstellar, despite its take on intergalactic travel, event horizon, blackhole, space-time warp, and 5 dimensions, is too naive and elementary work of an otherwise great director. It can also be said it's a 3 hours long and 300 million dollars tribute to 15 minutes of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Either way, the idea I am trying to send across this wormhole is that Interstellar is an infantile and immature movie that could had been fun, had it not taken itself too seriously.
Stripped off all the bells and whistles, the key plot element of Interstellar is the ancient concept of time-travel and how you can revisit your past to send signals that your past self thought coming from providence or their guardian angels. Deja Vu? Yes indeed! After all this is the very plot device that is at the heart of Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban.
So the main problem with Interstellar is that it doesn't have anything new to offer. On top of it you have some dead serious actors who talk and talk and talk and talk about concepts of love, belief, faith, and trust while crossing wormholes, black holes, event horizons and what not. And then they talk some more on every planet that they visit.
Well, the movie is not a complete wash-off thanks to a very impressive and realistic performance by Matthew McConaughey whose powerful acting somewhat lift up a movie that runs haywire most of the time because Nolan was playing with concepts beyond his ken. I am sure that by the time he was half way through directing it, even he did not have an idea that what the heck he was making.
But I believe that's okay for once. Every great director deserves to make one or two duds in their career so my faith in Nolan is not yet broken.
One small note for sci-fi fans. the physics used here is just the elementary theoretical physics which no can prove and no can disprove. In fact it will be more correct to day that this movie uses meta-physics more than physics -example- Love is presented as the 5th dimension of universe and belief can overcome all physical odds-like easily locating a floating astronaut in the infinite swathe of universe!