Masterpiece.

Rating: 10/10 (12 January 2019)

Let me take a moment to explain my connection to this incredible film. While getting my undergrad at Ohio State, I took a class dedicated in its entirety to Black Holes. This was in 2014, and the semester perfectly coincided with the release of this film. Although I've since gone on to enter the business world, this was my favorite class of my undergraduate tenure. I had the privilege to learn from a professor who was required to take a couple of weeks off to attend a summit in Chile, as he was one of the few people on the planet qualified to work on and analyze the Hubble telescope. We spent an entire week dissecting the metrics of the film's central black hole, Gargantuan; it's spin, mass, and charge. My textbook? Authored none other than Kip Thorne, who was also the Executive Producer of this film. Kip, as you'll see in the trivia section on IMDB, had the immense task to keep all aspects of this film within the grasp of our current theoretical realm. Although elements of this film fringe on the very edge of scientific theory, the overall scientific elements of it are sound, which is why I respected it so greatly. It is a perfect converging of Hollywood and Science. This film came at the perfect time for me, and capped my favorite educational course I have ever taken, albeit far from the professional path I would end up taking. Please dismiss the campy elements of the film, perhaps realizing they simply add "gravity" to the plot! One of my favorite movies of all time, if you have any interest in the deep recesses of space and the *truly* unknown (as humanity has no grasp of what surrounds the central plot of this film), I encourage you to watch, and rewatch, this cinematic adventure.