Top 10 Movie of 2014....But Not The Best

Rating: 8/10 (9 November 2014)

I cannot remember the last time I've been this split about a movie, the way I am with 'Interstellar'. The movie features a general plot that I absolutely love, Earth is dying and Earth's remaining survivors must send people in search for a new planet to save mankind. I've always been fascinated by space and I love how Nolan explores the unknown, such as far off galaxies, wormholes, blackholes, and gravity. The brilliance is that he is basically free to do whatever he wants with them since hardly anything is known about such anomalies. Time was at the center of the movie, it was the driving force for the main character and it was intriguing to see how time manipulated people's motives, its a force you cannot fight and win against. But on the other end of the spectrum, with a movie like this, you open up a door to a plethora of questions, which happens to be the case. There are moments where the movie just forces you to assume something with very little explanation (especially characters motives for doing certain acts). The movie also beats you over the head with constant talk about gravity and relativity, as if the entire audience had a PhD in physics. That was a huge drawback for the film, it relied so heavily on those concepts that it was hard to follow or understand as they went from one idea to the next with little explanation. You know when you have a real life physicist on the set explaining such topics to you, that the audience might be left behind scratching their heads. As for the acting department, the movie was surprisingly tame, outside of Matthew Mcconaughey, no one stood out, they just did their jobs and that was the end of it. Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, and Michael Caine were all fine, but certainly nothing to brag about. As for the ending, I still have mixed feelings about it, I really wanted a huge 'No way!' curveball thrown at me, but instead we got an overly explained ending that we knew would tie into the beginning of the film. But it was sort of bittersweet in a sense and I kind of enjoy that type of thing. But again, not enough can be said about the general ideas Nolan wanted to put on screen, they were ambitious and very intriguing to think about post film. I'm glad someone took a chance on such complicated and sought after ideas, even if they came up short (we surely will not be seeing something of this caliber in a very long time). Best movie of 2014?........sadly no. That title belongs to 'Gone Girl' or 'Snowpiercer'
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