Christopher Nolan always takes his audience on an epic adventure. Even in his Dark Knight trilogy, even in the weakest of his movies - The Dark Knight Rises, it is still a great fantasy journey.
Interstellar took us into outer space. But even more than that, he took us out of our solar system and galaxy.
The build-up in the first 30 minutes could be argued as a tad slow. But it was necessary. Because when it got emotional, it really went emotional. I was floored by Nolan's direction in storytelling. As one event led to the next and the one one after that, everything culminated in one amazing acting feat by Matthew McConaughey that made us feel what his character was feeling.
The story by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan was out of this world. At the same time, there were a lot of science and physics involved; and a lot of imagination needed. Like Inception, not everything could be understood fully in one seating what the Nolan brothers were serving to us. It is also up to us the audience to decide whether or not we can accept their concepts like that of the worm hole and the black hole.
But to see the waves and the frozen clouds and the planet Saturn on the IMAX, this is cinema at its best.
However, let me dive into spoiler territory for a bit to talk about what I found to be negative.
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First, I'll start with the ending. It was just too rushed. To see McConaughey finally reunited with his daughter, and for the daughter to immediately push him away rather than having that statement, "No parent should bury their own child," sit with the audience longer and incite even more emotions; it was way too rushed.
I understand that the movie was already more than 2.5 hours long. But I needed more conclusive explanation as to how his daughter would know where Anne Hathaway's character was. And how she knew that she was all alone in that whole planet.
The best kept secret of the movie was probably Matt Damon. I was really surprised to see him emerged. But then again, I predicted that he was going to be up to no good. And to have that realised kind of diminish the experience for me a little.
And when they were in that planet that's flooded, why didn't they get TARS to salvage the equipment since TARS was clearly fastest of them all.
But what I loved about the story was that no one was evil. Only circumstances made them seem evil. How can you fault Damon's character for wanting to survive? How can you fault Michael Caine for wanting to save an entire species. How can you fault Casey Affleck (who probably was the easiest as a target to dislike) after losing a child and wanting to protect the rest with the only way he knew how?
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The rest of the cast, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy, Topher Grace, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, David Gyasi and Bill Irwin as the voice of TARS; all great. No one was a weak link.
There's so much that we can discuss and talk about that in this world created by the Nolans and I can go on and on. But as a closing to this review, while I didn't fully grasp the science behind everything, as a cinematic experience though, the visuals coupled with Hans Zimmer's score was beautifully amazing. The story was complex and mind-blowing. There were some parts that I didn't like, that felt too easy.
But still, this was an epic adventure that I wouldn't mind going again.
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