Finally! Here is my review of my most anticipated movie of the year, Interstellar. Alright, alright, alright. #interstellar In the most too distant future, Earth is beginning to die. Crops are all dying out and it’s near the end of all humanity. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a former pilot and widowed father and a few others must embark on an Interstellar voyage to save all of humanity. What a beautiful, enthralling epic Interstellar is. This was my most anticipated movie of the year and despite other reviews being mixed or mixed to positive I believe this to be one of the best movies of the year! With a near three hour runtime the movie never once dragged or became uninterested. Christopher Nolan has created another masterful film and a movie I will not forget anytime soon. Matthew McConaughey is fantastic as Cooper. He is the actor who you really follow and carries the story and he’s fantastic! He is just that one character who you root for to win. He is easily an Oscar contender for Best Actor in a Leading Role, this is the best I’ve ever seen from him. One scene in particular he had no holding back tears he was so convincing. Anne Hathaway is also great as Amelia Brand, one of the astronauts who goes on the voyage. I thought she did a great job with the work given her. David Gyasi and Wes Bentley are terrific here as well and this is the best thing Nolan does. He brings out the best in every single one of these actors from this A list cast. We even have a robot in this movie! It was completely awesome! It acted as a comic relief at moments which were hilarious but in the end I really did care about the fait about the robot as well. Back on Earth Mackenzie Foy who played Cooper’s daughter Murph is great. She is an excellent child actor and I want to see more of her in the future. Her chemistry with McConaughey were some of the best father, daughter duo I’ve seen in years. In a role I will not spoil Jessica Chastain comes in and gives a performance worth an Oscar nomination for an Actress in a Supporting role. And if you have a Nolan movie Michael Caine will show up and he’s great as well. All of the acting in this movie is just spot on brilliant and we even get a child actor who wasn’t annoying but excellent! While we do have the interstellar voyage, essentially this movie is about a father and his daughter. Like I mentioned above, Mackenzie Foy’s and McConaughey’s chemistry was so strong and the goodbye scene was so emotional and so well done I forgot this was a movie! I didn’t see the actors but their characters. What I wanted to see was the Earth as it was dying and we do get that! I was hoping it just wouldn’t cut to the voyage but the first half of the movie is on Earth and it’s fantastic to see carnage and everyone realizing that they aren’t going to survive. But the movie really kicks in once we leave the planet Earth and get one of the most beautiful representations of space ever put to film. Everything looks gorgeous and in the end it is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever watched in my life. Nolan is an expert is practical effects and not once in this movie, CGI and a green screen was used. I know! He only used practical effects in this movie, in 2014 where CGI is the way to go he creates one of the most stunning movies ever made without it. This is where it gets tough because I can’t really talk about the space aspect of the film without spoiling anything but I will say it turns into a true space epic. Director and Writer Christopher Nolan creates this masterpiece and he is deserving of a Best Director nomination for this film. Not only is the emotional scenes excellent and visuals top notched but the action set pieces are enthralling. One sequence in particular had my hands sweating and my legs shaking, waiting to see the outcome of it. By the time it ended my hands were sweating. Interstellar believe it or not is as scientifically accurate as you will get. Nolan spent seven years studying wormholes, that is great dedication. Interstellar makes me want to read more about wormholes and want to study everything about it I was so interested in it! Despite having a three hour runtime the movie never drags and I didnt want it to end. Nolan truly is one of the best filmmakers working today. You just have to appreciate Nolan’s ambition on this picture. From the man who brought us Inception, this is his most ambitious film to date and you just have to stare in awe at this picture. This is a truly original film and it’s ideas are not only thought provoking but universally epic. The movie gets it’s amazing emotional pull from the science of black holes. The way it represents them, time in there will speed up time on Earth and it’s shown in great detail and heartbreaking. The one scene happens and it’s so real that I was tearing up and attempting to hold them back the best I possibly could. We also get this sense of place in the universe. We learn that we aren’t the only things in the universe that it’s much larger than we ever could imagine. In reality I’m just this spec or bacteria on this planet making this review for you all, I’m nothing more and the movie does this so well that it makes me think about it all. Do I really need to talk about Hans Zimmer’s amazing score? The music in Interstellar is so unique and different that is separates itself from other music scores. The music empowers each scene and often brings emotion out, by the end of the movie I wanted to buy the Interstellar soundtrack. In fact as soon as it’s released I’m buying that soundtrack because it’s that fantastic! If you do want to see Interstellar I do recommend seeing it in iMax. I saw Interstellar on a four story screen surrounded in an iMax theater. The sound quality was excellent and it made me feel as if I were in the moment. While I do recommend it make sure you are familiar with iMax because this was my first time ever and it took me sometime to adapt into it. But it was so worth it. Interstellar was made to be experienced like this. In the end, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is a fantastic piece of cinema and is one of my favorite movies of the year. It’s filled with excellent performances, amazing direction and featuring some of the best action scenes of the year and having a three hour runtime and not once dragged. Please see Interstellar as soon as possible! I give Interstellar an A+.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:05:20 +0000
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