Saw Christupher Nolans I N T E R S T E L L E R ! This was a good two days back, but i was too zapped to put down an objective review of it immediately after the event, so now that I see the movie in perspective, I can be a wee bit more objective, so here goes... The movie carried great expectations and hype generally associated with all Christopher Nolan movies considering his previous superlative work Memento, Batman Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception to name a few. I found Interstellar to be signature Christopher Nolan work! While at one level it can be branded as another Sci-Fi movie, it connects well as a movie about the possible effects of global warming, space exploration, relativity, time, motion, gravity, blackholes and many more scientific facts. While people without a science background may find the discussions in the movie to geek stuff or tedious, but they needed to be interposed into the story to make it understood and Nolan kept it it simple and crisp. The story in brief is set in Earths future, when global dust storms are afflicting crops and making our planet uninhabitable. A farmer Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and his young children are eking out an tough existence when they are disturbed by strange phenomena and encounter Professor Brand (Michael Caine), a brilliant NASA physicist, who has plans to save mankind by shipping Earths population to a new home across the Milky Way galaxy, So he sends Cooper (who is a former NASA pilot) and a team of researchers (Anne Hathaway and others) through a wormhole across the galaxy to find out a suitable planet out of short-listed three, to be mankinds new home. With a good screenplay, detailed premise or theory translated into a gripping human drama, Interstellar is a great watch. Like in most Nolan movies, every bit of incongruous scene earlier on in the movie is brought to a logical explanation later in into the movie, like concept of gravity, relativity, non-linear time etc. I may have to see the movie another time to understand some finer points... hehe... even though I am from a science background. McConaughtey and Anne Hathaway are perfectly cast and the other major characters Jessica Chastain and Coopers daughter and Casey Affleck lent good support, Sir Michael Caine has aged well and looked every bit a brilliant NASA scientist :) The movie would be nothing without the music (Hans Zimmer) and this is M A G N I F C E N T I must say, and in line with the grand intergalactic scenes panning out on the movie screen and will leave you spellbound. I came out mesmerised, with the grand bass sounds reverberating in my ears, and the mind astounded as always, at Gods creation of the universe, and Christophers visualisation of it! I go to movies to be entertained, intrigued, educated and amazed, to come out with wonder in my eyes ... Interstellar did all that for me so Id give it a 4.5/5 !
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:20:57 +0000
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