The most ambitious film to ever pull of what it attempted to achieve.

Rating: 9/10 (9 November 2014)

I liked Interstellar. It wasn't the best movie I ever saw, perhaps not even one of the best... but it was very, very ambitious, and unlike most ambitious films, it delivered.
His previous film outside the Batman franchise explained the process of inception in movie theaters in a very meta way. That movie took us deeper and deeper into the layer of dreams until we forgot that the outer layer was our own reality. Then it planted a seed, that once the target has been derived far enough from her own reality, an idea can be planted in such a way that the target does not reflect that it has been led or guided to the intended conclusion. The planted idea becomes the genuine idea of the target, and stays with the target once she has returned to her own layer of reality. This is performed by a crew of set builders, directors, actors and so in the perfect summary of what a good movie can do to the watcher. The film Inception is an inception of the idea of films as a tool for inceptions into the viewers of the film. And it does so in a very clever way. After pulling that of as a director/producer, what do you do next? You save the world.
Some people have compared interstellar to Kubriks 2001: A Space Odyssey﻿, and I will agree that on the surface, if you were to just look at the visuals from the films, there would be similarities. But when it comes to narration and theme, I would rather pair it with Cloud Atlas, the 2012 epic sci-fi by the Wachowski brothers. In what way? They are both inceptions.
Cloud atlas is a story told in different times and places but it all comes down to different ways of getting the viewer to forget that she is watching a movie, and to immerse herself in the events that take place on the screen. And once that is achieved, the very simple message of every human beings equal value is told. That we shouldn't oppress each other. Stop being dicks.
Interstellar does the same, but (almost) without the jumping back and forth in time. And once you are invested in the characters, once you have forgotten who you are, and immersed yourself in the world and the events that are being told on the screen, the message is clear: Start cooperating, and stop messing this world up, or we will all die.
Stop being dicks.
I've read reviews on Interstellar where they dislike it for the scientific errors (force feedback flight-sticks in space) or for the sometimes brute or overdone emotional scenes (filled with Zimmers bombastic horn blowing score) or the psychedelic kaleidoscope scenes at the end (an obvious 2001 homage, but IMHO, much better executed).
But those things, while obviously there, are likely meant to be there. Meant to take your mind of other things.
Because once you've vented your displeasure on facebook, maybe read a few reviews enforcing your suspicions about inaccurate science, and once you're back at your desk on the next work day... ...you realize that yes, NASA would have to be a secret organization in this world. Plan B might be the only option. Don't believe in ghosts. Some lies might have to be told to get us to cooperate, and others might ruin our chances as a species. And we really, really, have to stop being dicks, and learn to cooperate. Or our children might never have a future.
And that is some ambition. And that, Nolan delivered.
I recommend Interstellar.