Interstellar: a space odyssey

Rating: 10/10 (16 November 2014)

First of all I want to remind that this movie is completely different from any previous Nolan movie I've seen, exception for a few solutions of storytelling Nolan uses frequently.
Nolan himself admitted this movie is inspired both by Tarkovskij's Mirror and Kubrick's 2001: a space odyssey, and I must say that last title's influence is very evident throughout the entire movie, full with references, without that downgrading this movie at all. I saw myself some references in Solaris (1972) too. The movie, if you didn't expect, is a slow movie. it has some deep messages, most of which told by the characters, and has incredibly well done visual effects.
Each actor's performance was great, starting from McConaughney, Jessica Chastain and Michael Caine, to Matt Damon's cameo, strangely uncredited though of its own importance in the movie.
The music of Hans Zimmer surprised me completely, even though was said to be original and new. It has nothing to do with Zimmer's previous scores, and in certain points reminds of 2001: A space odyssey.
I can see, strangely, how this movie's direction was originally thought to be given to Spielberg; certain scenes give that thrilling fear that Spielberg uses in his own movies, though storytelling and the way the entire film is shot does not resemble Spielberg's way of direction at all.
I come back to the visual effects. They were stunning, just as the ideas and concepts that have been put in this movie. This movie, as I already said, is very clearly inspired by 2001, but is less enigmatic and maybe more adapted to present audiences. It does have more science than 2001, more deepness of the message than 2001, and, to me, it's what 2001 should have been, not taking away respect to the movie that is considered by me the founder of the Science Fiction as a true, modern cinematic genre. I'd give a 11/10 to this movie if I only could!!!