But back to the start

Rating: 9/10 (21 January 2015)

In "Interstellar" we follow a group of astronauts through a intensive and remarkable trip to another galaxy to save humanity.
For me the biggest achievement of the movie is, that you can watch it in many ways. It's a thriller, a drama and a science-fiction movie as well. I really like hybrid movies so this was perfect with me.
Despite the fast, that the subject of dying earth often was handled, the story is original and unpredictable. Framed by the wish of a daughter to see her father again and the other way around we follow Cooper and Murph through decades and light years till they finally meet again. The ideas of other planets and their atmosphere and state, the working of wormholes and black holes and the handling with physical theories is at least so accurate that many people are bothered when it comes to the real fictional part. I'm no physicist, but I truly belief that non of the things in the movie were just total bullshit even when they are just theoretical ideas of what would potential work.
But, as in the movie, back to the start. The world is dying cause of some more or less explained circumstances and Cooper, former NASA pilot and now farmer and father of two kids, gets mysterious signs which lead him to a secret NASA-station where he is the center of a mission to find a new place for humanity. He has to leave his children behind to be part of this. Matthew McCaunaghey seems to can not do wrong these days. He really emphasizes the bidirectional thinking of Cooper. He loves his family (I cried with McCaunaghey, when he sees the Video of his aged family) but he feels, that it is his duty to be an astronaut.
On the journey he and his crew visit beautiful yet dangerous places and have to fight against all odds, while the likable father of the mission (well acted by Michael Caine) has another perception of the journey as the crew.
An that is another thing I liked about interstellar: The characters. The main characters are all multidimensional. Cooper has at least three goals: to see his family again, save humanity and over that he wants to be a pilot. Brand (Michael Caine) is a pessimistic and realistic scientist, who has lost all hope, but he lies to everyone and also to himself. Brand (not so well played by Anne Hathaway) wasn't prepared for the journey, but she keeps learning to handle things. She is stuck between love and science and although it seems that she makes her decisions out of love in the end it turns out, that she would have made the right decision anyway. Murph (awesome Mackenzie Foy AND Jessica Chastain) wants her father back after she feels rejected from him an finds another father figure in Brand. She keeps getting disappointed by the people she loves and trusts, but never gives up to find a way. In the end she finds out, that her father was with her the whole time and so she gets an end, that she deserves.
Many persons to deal with (and then there is this excellent robot) so that no one in particular has the chance to deliver a academy award worthy performance (even if McCaunaghey did great), but we know that from Nolans movies.
After I watched it the first time I, as many others, didn't like the end with all the "love is the solution" talking and I still think, that the movie would be better by far, if Cooper didn't had to say that, but after thinking about it a bit, it's only Cooper who gives us his theory about what the tesseract and the wormhole came from, so in fact the resolution is still up to the viewer.
What I didn't like about Interstellar was first of all Anne Hathaway. It didn't feel like the role was written as she played it. Also I would have given the other crew members a bit more screen time so that I can feel really sorry for them, when they die. As a foreign language speaker the sound mixing sometimes disturbed me by being to loud (but I love the music itself. My Academy award favorite this year)
All in all Nolan delivers a beautiful, well written, intelligent action blockbuster, that is not as complex as other Nolan movies, but has an important message. It's studded with good actors and music. The cinematography as well is phenomenal.
Loved it