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"Interstellar" (2014) REVIEW


A space-travel movie with the storytelling of Christopher Nolan? Sign me up!

When the earth starts becoming uninhabitable, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and his crew are sent to space to enter a black hole next to Saturn that leads to a galaxy with planets that may prove to be a new home for the people of earth. However, to do so, Cooper must leave his family behind with the possibility that he may never return. With the theory of relativity in play as well (time passing slower to some and faster for others), the crew must be as fast and efficient as possible.

I tried to keeps my hopes low upon entering this movie, but it's hard to do that when you're about to see a movie from the same writer and director of Inception, The Prestige, and The Dark Knight trilogy. Interstellar still has Christopher Nolan's trademarks: the cinematography, the dialogue, the concept, the twist, and the science. However, a quarter of this three hour movie is a rough patch that brings its ratings down.

Unlike the beginning of the movie and the second half, the entire time the crew is first in space before they reach the first planet, this quarter of the movies suffers from stop-and-go pacing. Being a quarter of a nearly three hour movie, that is roughly forty minutes! The film uses "fade to black" or "cut to black" transitions to create a gap. Perhaps this is to get through the movie faster, but a simple fade from one shot of space to another would have worked much better.

Besides that portion, the rest of the movie flows nicely. Christopher Nolan takes his time to develop the characters and the idea of the film (even though I'm sure a good portion of the viewers will be left scratching their head). The visuals are amazing, the intense scenes really are intense, and the ending gives gives the movie great closure.

Though not the greatest movie this year nor as good as Christopher Nolan's other work, Interstellar is still worth a watch, just not multiple times. Honestly, it is just about as good as The Dark Knight Rises (which, coincidentally, also stars Anne Hathaway).

3.5/5 Stars

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