Good Story But Not Great

Rating: 7/10 (7 November 2014)

I saw "Interstellar", starring Matthew McConaughey-Dallas Buyers Club, Amistad; Mackenzie Foy-The Conjuring, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1&2; Michael Caine-The Dark Knight movies, Jaws: The Revenge; Anne Hathaway-The Dark Knight Rises, Brokeback Mountain and Jessica Chastain- Zero Dark Thirty, The Help.
This is a sci-fi movie directed by Christopher Nolan-The Dark Knight movies & Inception-about the not too distant future on Earth, where drought and famine has just about wiped out mankind-I bet you thought it would have been aliens that destroyed us. Matthew is a farmer now but he used to be an astronaut/pilot, before everything went bad. Mackenzie plays his 10 year old daughter. Michael plays a NASA scientist that has been working on a solution to save humanity but he needs Matthew's help. Michael wants to send a spaceship into a blackhole near Saturn that could possible discover a suitable, livable replacement planet for everyone to relocate to. He even volunteers his own daughter, Anne, to go along on the trip-she is a scientist, but it doesn't hurt that she is easy on the eyes. The only problem is that traveling through blackholes is not an every day occurrence, so there is a lot of speculation about how time could be a factor; one day on the other side of the blackhole could be seven years back on Earth and everyone could be dead by the time they completed their mission, if they are not careful. Jessica plays the older version of Mackenzie and she was not happy with her father leaving her, even if it was to try and save the whole world. The special effects are pretty good and FYI, Christopher said that he did not use any green screens for his effects. There are some cool looking robots-I have never seen one like it-and there are several cameo actors that might surprise you. It's rated "PG-13" for intense action and language and has a running time of 2 hours & 49 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD-once was enough. It would have been better if it had been a little shorter-almost 3 hours-but it would be a good rental.