Nolan does it again!!!

Rating: 10/10 (20 November 2014)

Interstellar: Seeing the trailer for this ambitious film, I immediately became overjoyed because if anyone can pull off a movie like this one, it is Christopher Nolan. And who better to lead the charge than Matthew McConaughey. A guy who has completely turned his career around in the past three years and is now consider to be one of the top actors in Hollywood. This movie is incredible to say the least. Interstellar combines interesting concepts and ideas, brilliant script writing and directing to make the most thought provoking and groundbreaking Nolan film yet.
This movie was near-perfect too me, but the only thing that kept me from giving it a 9.5/10 was it getting to complicated for it's own good. Towards the end after so much stuff has happened, it gives you more to contemplate just to keep up with whats going on. Still, it does not fall into the same pit as Lucy where towards the end it gets caught in its own complicated story line and it can't get itself out. Also, I feel like they rushed the beginning when they were still on Earth. Nolan seemed as if he wanted to get to space as fast as possible which made the scenes on Earth far less impactful to the audience.
I love the acting in films, but in a film like this, the acting is secondary. The primary focus is the special effects. They made entirely new worlds from nothing. Space stations from scratch. Everything imaginable to make this movie believable was created. What I like about Christopher Nolan's films is the fact he tries to use as many "real environments" as possible. They were not CGI'd into a spaceship, they were actually in one. What Nolan did to make the acting even greater was he created the imagery before hand. Doing this, the actors reactions to what they saw when they looked out the windows were real. The CGI was still incredible too. The idea and design for the robot they made was breath-taking. They made you believe a futuristic robot could go across any terrain, known or unknown. I firmly believe the CGI could not have been better done and it is, in my opinion, the best in the history of cinema. I would also like to mention I have only ever heard a score for a film this good one other time- Inception. This one might even be better. The music and underscoring conveyed the exact feelings the director wanted the audience to feel at any given moment. The score gave the audience a sense that anything was possible. Anything within our imagination could come true and nothing is ever out of reach.
What I love during the film was the special effects, but what I loved so much about Interstellar after watching it was the script writing and directing. The way the Nolan brothers were able to come up with all of the concepts about time relativity and gravity is far beyond me. What I love the most about the script though was how it all came back together at the end. Everything began to make sense. Their were no major plot holes that bothered me throughout or things I could not understand well-enough because the film did not explain it enough. Everything made sense. This film was cast perfectly as well as being written near- perfectly. Matthew McConaughey was a slam-dunk pick to play the lead in the film and he conveyed the perfect normal, but smart loving character needed to make the role work. The scenes where he sees his kids for the first time in years is really amazing because of the overjoyed happy and sad feelings he has to show from seeing his kids grow up without him. Anne Hathaway also did an amazing job and played the part well. The rest of the cast did the best they could with the screen-time they had and I loved the completely unexpected cameo they threw in the film.
If you can handle intricate films that you have to pay attention , Interstellar will amaze you. Don't wait to see it at home, the movie theater experience will enhance the film experience a hundred times more. Obviously, I recommend you see Interstellar as your first choice walking into theaters.
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