Amazing Sci-fi

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2015)

The premise looked great. The music used for the later trailers (Final Frontier by Thomas Bergersen) was the most awesome ever. And the film delivered.
Christopher Nolan continues to create the most brilliant twist- filled stories and this was no exception. We have Matthew McConaughey plays Cooper, a widowed former pilot living on a barren Earth, climate change causing dust storms that have wiped out all crops bar corn. When his bright daughter Murph is convinced that a ghost has sent coordinates to an unknown location, the two discover a project, to launch a spacecraft though a wormhole near Saturn, that will lead to other worlds and galaxies, some that could be infinitely far from our own. So along with Anne Hathaway, David Gyasi and Wes Bentley, the four astronauts travel through the wormhole on their mission to find a new alternate home other than the dying Earth.
The story was yes, a little clichéd but still fantastic to watch although what you predicted would happen after watching the trailer happened in the film. The deliberately rough sound-mixing was frustrating but I accepted it since Nolan was trying to add realism. The plot thickened so much in the middle that my head was spinning and in the scene where the airlock exploded I suddenly found that I was grasping my head in my hands like in a plane during an emergency landing, it was that shocking!
The film is a little long, but at no point was I bored watching because every scene had something that drew me in, whether it was the dialogue or the action, or the great score, once again, by Hans Zimmer. I don't have a favourite scene in Interstellar, because there were so many. When a film is like that and at no points am I waiting for the next scene to come along, I usually give it 10/10.
The performances were all top-notch as you'd expect, yet out of all of them, Mackenzie Foy as the younger version of Murph was the most eye-catching, regarding her inexperience. Before Intersteller, Mackenzie had played Edward and Bella's daughter in the hideous Twilight: Breaking Dawn movies and had a smaller role in the Conjuring. Just 12 when this was shot, with such an important role to play, Mackenzie's performance was very good for a child actor. It obviously wasn't quite Oscar-worthy, not as highly acclaimed as say, Haley Joel Osment's Oscar-nominated triumph in the Sixth Sense, but her emotional diversity was impressive. Watch out for this young and beautiful actress in years to come, for she might have a great future ahead. Some are convinced that she could be a great Ellie in a Last of Us movie.
I am writing this just after the Oscar nominations have been released and it is sad that, despite 5 nominations, there none for Christopher Nolan himself, for Original Screenplay, Directing and Best Film, which many thought was a certainty. Although not as perfect as everyone imagined, Interstellar IS a classic sci-fi movie, with a lot going on in a lot of time (nearly 3 hours), but a ride you'll never forget.