- ★★★ 1/2
After the huge success of The Dark Knight trilogy, I think it’s about time for Christopher Nolan to be back in creating spectacular movies with interesting, almost true-to-life stories that will surely captivate movie goers.
And of course, like any other movies Nolan directed like Inception, which almost blew my mind deciphering stuffs but in a good way, and The Prestige which is simply my favorite movie of all time and many others that have themes of scientific theories with it and then added some spicy storylines that are bombastic not just in the blockbuster but also in award giving bodies; Interstellar is one hell of a ride.
OVERVIEW
Interstellar is a space travel adventure, sci-fi, action-thriller and a mind boggle that focuses on the theory of wormholes, black holes and a lot of intergalactic stuff added with some captivating story and fascinating visual effects that I sure will get your brains working.
The story focuses on Cooper which is played by Academy Award Winner, Matthew McConaughey; a former test pilot engineer, who has a family struggling in their everyday life from living here on Earth that will soon to die.
Yes, folks, it’s a dystopian kind of film.
Anyhow, Cooper soon discovers a code from her daughter’s room filled with ‘ghosts’ which they then discovered that it was a coordinate to an underground NASA. Then the story goes with more drama and complications in it, as Cooper travels space looking for another Earth for humans to habituate, together with Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Romilly (David Gyasi) and Doyle (Wes Bently).
They pass through series of inconvenient, scientific problems that, to tell you honestly, if you don’t listen carefully, you’d miss one single bit of a good plot.
Then until it reaches to a point where betrayal, survival, and sacrifice have to be done in order for the movie to end very, very well.
INTERSTELLAR
The good points about watching a Christopher Nolan movie is that first, by the end of the film there’s a feeling that you are intelligent (*wink), because of the fact that Interstellar (and other Nolan films) are strictly hard to decipher especially when revelations are mostly verbalized rather than most movies in which flashbacks are necessary. It’s either a character nonchalantly utters the revelation and/or if flashbacks are necessary; it’s given as a glimpse (e.g. in The Dark Knight Rises which Talia al’Gul reveals she’s the child in the pit). It’s crazy to think that only Nolan would risk a hugely budgeted film for a climax or dénouement to be hardly explained, but that’s what makes it more interesting.
Second good thing is that the storytelling is again a Christopher Nolan mark and it’s very amusing because we all know that a Nolan movie (except for The Dark Knight Trilogy) comprises not just with interesting storylines with no basis at all; of course, it’s not a Nolan movie without any scientific theories attached to it. And that what makes Interstellar effective and awesome… I mean literally your mouth drops.
Third good thing is there are twists of course, and it’s all in the twist where a Nolan movie becomes great. But this time, the twist which I expected to happen is quite predictable even in the onset of scene where you would know that it would become part of the big reveal at the end. And with that comes questions that if I already predicted what the twist is, how would they be able to execute the revelation then? Will it be good? For me, I think Christopher Nolan knows that the twist is already predictable and I am happy to say that the sequence to the revelation of the movie is a bravo.
Fourth good thing is the sub plots which are crispy and exciting.
COMPARISON TO OTHER NOLAN MOVIES
It’s hard not to compare to Nolan’s other works like Inception and The Prestige, because I myself became a fan of his.
To be honest, if we compare Interstellar from the mentioned films; it’s a bit off. Standalone, Interstellar is a good film; cringe-worthy, exciting, thought-provoking and deliberate, but if there’s a point of comparison in those three films, well, it’s a shame but Interstellar may be the least good of three, and The Dark Knight isn’t part of it yet.
OVERALL
All I can say is that you have to focus and lend not just your ears but all your attention to the film because once you miss a part you will have confusion in the next few scenes.
But I have to say that Interstellar is a captivating space adventure, probably the best one, depicting a scientific intergalactic possibility plus cringe-worthy plot and a good twist that will be hard to beat when it comes to an intergalactic sci-fi genre.
