Good, but Overrated

Rating: 7/10 (29 August 2015)

This is a movie with plenty of things going for it. Great performances, incredible visual effects, an interesting story, and tons of really cool concepts, which make for a few genuinely powerful scenes, However, that doesn't make it the flawless masterpiece of cinematic genius everybody is labeling it as. There are tons of people giving this movie 10/10 ratings, leading to a user rating of 8.7, and it is now #29 on the IMDb top 250. WOW! That is a lot of praise! On the top 250, "Interstellar" is above "Casablanca", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Psycho", "Apocalypse Now", and "CITIZEN KANE"! According to the users on IMDb, this movie's better than "Citizen Kane", which has been known as possibly the greatest film of all time!
Is is better than "Citizen Kane"? No, not even close. The film is full of flaws, the biggest being the runtime. I may never see this movie again because of how long it felt! It feels like a lot of scenes are unneeded, and were made just so the movie could be longer, because Christopher Nolan wanted to make it seem really epic. I'm sure if Nolan cut a huge chunk of the movie out, it would've been better. A film by Nolan that is better than this one is "The Dark Knight", which has a somewhat long runtime, but it feels way shorter than it's runtime, and is extremely entertaining throughout. "Interstellar" is so long that it starts to really drag on and, at times, I began to just zone out.
The film is also a bit too dramatic. The dialogue about how "love conquers all" seemed very unnecessarily corny, as well as a few other select scenes in the movie. However, some sequences were quite powerful, especially the ending, which, actually, was kind of creepy. The concept of time was very prominent throughout the film, and it lead to some pretty creative and powerful sequences.
Overall, the film is recommended, but you should be warned that this movie was LOOOOOOOONG!!!!!!