For Every High, There's A Low

Rating: 9/10 (8 November 2014)

This was probably the strangest movie I saw this year for me. The reason is that, for every moment that was amazing and had a lot of impact, there was also and incredibly mind boggling scene or plot point thrown into the mix. But I'll go into more depth about that later. So, whats the story of Interstellar? The story is that the world is kinda bad now, since there dust-storms happening all the time, the only food Earth can produce now is corn. So an engineer played by Mathew Mcconaughey is sent by NASA on a space exploration mission to find another planet that is more habitable. But the engineer still has a family and has to say good bye to them before his big expedition. He then travels through other galaxies with other characters, one played by Anne Hathaway and a robot named TARS who kinda looks like Hal 9000 if he could walk. Well that's just the basic story anyway. If I told anymore it would just be a spoiler. First lets talk about the good things. The acting in this movie is really good, everyone seemed to play there parts well. for the most part. There were some emotional scenes that were done incredibly well with the acting and how it was shot. That's another thing, the movie was shot incredibly well. There were some scenes in the movie that reminded me of Gravity or 2001: A Space Odyssey with the cinematography. The soundtrack also helped create an amazing atmosphere of outer space. Again, reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now the best thing about the movie for me was the special effects. Oh my gosh, these effects were amazing. There were so many scenes that helped build the atmosphere of the planets the characters went to, so much so that I felt like they were really on a different planet and not some green screen over some random set. The use of practical effects were also done beautifully. The scene where they were flying the little ship felt like they were really flying. That was all my positive thoughts on the movie, so now time for the bad. But first..
Warning: This section of the review will contain spoilers. If you don't want to be spoiled about this movie then just scroll down the dash away from this review.
First off, the characters go to a planet that's made entirely out of water. After a while they notice that this planet can create gigantic waves the size of buildings. When they got there 3 characters that came to this planet, Mathew, Anne Hathaway, and character who only had 3 line up to this point. Gee, I wonder if there's someone who's going to die? Of course the guy who I'm not even sure if they mentioned his name, dies. After that they just go back to the station. It seemed like there was no point to going to that planet besides have an expendable character die and not even have it advance the plot in anyway. Then the biggest problem with this movie is in the last third of the movie. So the protagonists arrive on a snowy type planet, where they meet a surviving astronaut played by Matt Damon. When I first saw this movie I thought, 'Let me guess, hes going to act like a friend but then betray them for some dumb reason and also for the sake of having another sub plot in a Christopher Nolan movie.' And guess what, he does just that! It then leads up to a scene where Matt Damon is trying to go into the space station, and the pacing makes this scene fell like it going on for 20 minutes. And for no reason at all an asteroid randomly hit Matt Damon's ship out of sheer convenience, and I almost burst out laughing. Then Mathew has to go into a black hole for some reason that I can't remember well. Then whats happens next is so freaking confusing and strange that you need to see this scene for you're self because of how confusing it is. And people thought Inception was hard to follow. And I'm still not sure if it had some scientific relevance or if it was just a Deus Ex Machina disguised as something complex. Also the entire ending is just one big giant convenient ending because this movie is already almost 3 hours long.
Final Thoughts: Even though there were a lot of great things about this movie, there also so many bad things about this movie. I feel like it is still worth seeing for the good acting and special effects but it won't hide some of the inconsistency's of the movie. And this may be the only time I have been completely split down the middle about my opinion about the movie. Which is why I'm interested what everyone else thought about the movie
Final Rating: 5.8/10