A sci-fi love letter to fans by a writer/director who researches and takes his work seriously !!

Rating: 10/10 (7 November 2014)

Christopher Nolan is one of most polarized directors of our generation, most people love his work while others just don't but you have to agree, Mr.Nolan takes his scripts/work seriously, Interstellar is another medal to his list of deep, cerebral and multi-layer movies.
The movie is a family drama, sci-fi, mystery, adventure, thriller gelled into a script with a very interesting premise, its not run of the mill sci-fi or apocalyptic movie but again like Nolan's Inception, says many things and will interpret into different layers with multiple viewings. I will just go through the basic plot here and let the viewers get the experience when they watch it,
'The human race is fading after a dust cloud haunts the planet, all the crops are un-growable with the exception of corn, our protagonist is a ex-NASA pilot now turned farmer due to requirements and needs and has 2 children he dearly loves. Due to turn of events which all make sense later, the farmer Cooper is contacted by Nasa who now work secretly to find humans a new home, a new wormhole is the key to a new habitable galaxy and Cooper is to lead a mission to find the new planet where humanity can survive'.
More explanation will spoil the experience so that's what the journey is all about.The movie cycles through themes of existence, humanity, family, survival, sacrifice and love knitted masterfully along a sci-fi matrix. Now here I will point out that being a space junkie and following Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan all my life, I really found that Nolan has seriously researched the dynamics of wormholes, black holes and time-space continuum. Its easy to find plot-holes in any script as movies are work of fiction but the script has been carefully crafted and while giving some fictional pay-off, the movie never leaves it sci-fi core, for which I consider it a space movie of our generation, while GRAVITY was good on thrills, INTERSTELLAR will have people google through worm holes, relativity, interstellar travel for long.
To the technical details, the movie has excellent visuals and cinematography, it literally puts you in feet of Cooper and his team and you feel the ups and downs they go through, Nolan used more than 1 hour footage of IMAX cameras and it really enhances the experience and is a new benchmark for space movies and their portrayal (along with Gravity). In the acting department, the movie mainly focuses on Matthew McConaughey in the lead role as Cooper and he really scores a home- run here, the emotions of surprise, frustration and the scenes with his family at home and when he receives messages in space are really heart pounding, McConaughey is an actor who has improved and proved his talents in multi-genre and here he adds another dimension to his already impressive CV. The other actors do their job well, Anne Hathaway doesn't have much to do as the film does not have a full fledge heroine, in the supporting role, she does fine and so does Nolans other regulars like Michael Caine. Matt Damon is there and its a new type of role he has done, and he really performs great out of his comfort zone.Jessica Chastain isn't used much and is OK in what screen time she has and so is Cassey Affleck.
Concluding the review, I will advise the viewers that don't take criticism for the sake of criticism seriously and do watch this movie, the IMAX theater I saw it was dead silent and full and people came out talking and explaining to their companions the multiple scientific elements the movie possesses, the movie will achieve cult status like Inception and people will gradually realize its complicated circular loop type interpretation with time, but while its in theaters, don't miss it, I hardly watch a movie twice, but the 3 hour masterpiece is compelling me to make another theater booking and go through the experience all over again, its a journey, a saga, you all should experience.