Came close to being Nolan's masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (30 June 2015)

Christopher Nolan's space opera has the best special effects I have ever seen in a movie. Yes, even better than Gravity, and that is saying something. The CGI in this movie really is praise-worthy since I find myself telling myself something that rarely happens: It looked 100% real. Everything in this movie from the black hole to the worm hole looks incredible and the you can't really even notice the CGI. The score by Hans Zimmer is amazing, of course; and some scenes show director Christopher Nolan at his most mature.
Interstellar could have been spectacular, and it came close, really close to being the best movie directed by Chris Nolan, but there's no way around it, the movie is flawed. Like I said earlier the visuals and the sound are amazing, the directing was great, but the sad thing is, the story has issues. Just a few things off the top of my head: Cooper doesn't give a crap about his son and it just feels like he could have been completely left out of the movie and it wouldn't matter; two, the entire last act feels like Nolan takes us by the hand and shows us what he would like it to be his "perfect ending", but it all just feels too "perfect", which makes it imperfect, if that makes any sense at all; the whole love is quantifiable thing, really? She's a top scientist on a secret NASA mission and she's saying love is quantifiable?; Also in the end when Murph sees her dad for the first time in decades, and even after the entire human race pretty much owes him that they're all still alive, she talks to him for like two minutes and then asks him to leave? Really?
There were many things I really liked about Interstellar, though. Some of those things are the special effects, score and directing of the movie, like I mentioned earlier, but another thing I liked is how Christopher Nolan tries to pay homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey, which I think he achieves through some aspects. Like the spinning space station and the black hole sequence is more or less like the sequence of Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite in 2001. I also loved the chemistry between Coop and Murph when he's still on Earth.
Interstellar is not a perfect movie, by any means. But it is still a very well made film that has a few issues, but still doesn't disappoint and adds another victory to Christopher Nolan's amazing resume as a film director.