People who love movie-making will rightly love it. Purist sci-fi fans will hate it...

Rating: 8/10 (16 October 2016)

It shocks me reading a lot of these reviews. So many reviews from sci- fi fans and scientists and PhDs who hate it and feel like they were somehow duped by Nolan. As if Nolan's past movies were somehow intended to stand up to scientific scrutiny? Inception? Memento? The Prestige? So those movies stand up to scientific scrutiny? The expectations are so ridiculous.
All I can say is that if you do your research and still don't know what to expect from a Christopher Nolan movie, then that is your own fault. Go pay your money and enjoy Apollo 13 or The Martian.
Now for the everyone else. This movie is excellent. Interstellar's story is told in a slow, easy style reminiscent of Eastwood or Stephen King. You have time to consume the back story and get to know the characters. The visuals at all angles are truly stunning. From the visuals of the farms and the landscape, to the visuals of space travel, to Nolan's imaginative expression of what space-time looks like and what foreign worlds might look like. Nolan even dabbles in thought- provoking philosophy which challenges the viewer to think about what motivates their own lives.
But in the end, to me, this story is about a father's bond and unending love for his daughter. Which makes sense to me because the role of Murph (Cooper's daughter) is primarily played as a pre-teen... which would be the same age as Nolan's own children. He clearly was projecting his own life's experience into the story.
In all of the weaving of space-time, philosophy, technology, visuals, and a world facing certain doom... is a story of a father who simply wants to fulfill the promise he made to his daughter to come back home and see her once again. The simplicity of this underlying story combined with the complex weave of other sub-plots is really excellent.
Well done, Mr. Nolan. A strong 8 out of 10.