Interstellar

Year of release : 2014

Run time : 2h49m

Genre : Sci Fi / Adventure

Cast : Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, Timothee Chalamet, Matt Damon, John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, Mackenzie Foy, Wes Bentley, Topher Grace, Casey Affleck

Director : Christopher Nolan

The movie was co-written by Christopher Nolan with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, who wrote a 2007 script for a movie which was supposed to be directed by Steven Spielberg.

It's the middle of the 21st century, and humanity deals with huge and frequent dust storms and blithe affecting the crops, to the point they can only grow corn.

Joseph Cooper, a widower, is a former NASA test pilot, who works as a farmer, and has two kids, a smart daughter, Murphy, and a 15 year old son the school says should focus on becoming a farmer.

His daughter, Murphy, keeps on talking about a ghost which is pushing the books off their shelves, in her room, which after a dust storm, takes Cooper to a secluded NASA facility (as it turns out the ghost gave her geographic coordinates).

Professor John Brand tells him a wormhole appeared near Saturn 48 years prior, leading to a system with another galaxy with 12 planets which could host a habitat suitable for humans. They are all located near a black hole named Gargantua. He tells Cooper astronauts of the Lazarus missions traveled through the worm hole to evaluate which planet is suitable for human life, and they all sent back good results.

Cooper accepts to pilot the Endurance spaceship, through the worm hole as part of the mission to colonize a planet able to sustain human life, with 5000 embryos.

At the same time, the professor is trying to solve the equation to build a space ship to take everybody from earth (maybe he should have worked on teleportation).

When hearing about it, his daughter, Murphy, is upset, and refuses to talk to him. He leaves her his watch to compare the time from their different timelines, although she tells him she decoded the message her ghost sent her in Morse code, "Stay".

Cooper joins a crew consisting of professor Brand's daughter, Amelia, two more scientists, and two robots, TARS and CASE. The voyage to Saturn takes 2 years, and after they go through the wormhole, they investigate one of the planets, where time is very dilated.

They land in water, and after thinking there's mountains in the distance, they realize it's tidal waves, which destroyed their predecessor's expedition.

They lose a scientist to the tidal waves (which could have very well lived,but I guess, the writers wanted him dead), and when back on the Endurance, they find out while they only stayed on the planet for probably an hour, 23 years have passed!

Brand and Cooper fight about which planet to choose, as they only have enough fuel to travel to one, and while she tells him they should choose the planet the man she loves is on, because love should be enough proof that there's life on the planet, like a sort of divine sign, Cooper decides to go to the other planet.

His assumption was wrong, as the planet is an icy cold one, with frozen clouds leaning on top of the icy mountains.

I personally enjoyed the movie, although long, but not boring, not missing a beat. The movie has it all, action, science, heart and soul.

I also loved the reveal at the end, that Brand was right about her assumption, and who was Murphy's ghost.

I liked the fact the movie makes you think, and cry, at the same time.

One thing that bothered me was that the movie kept on changing ratio, from the 35 mm Anamorphic format to the IMAX 70 mm photography.

The acting was great, Matthew McConaughey was the best.

The soundtrack by Hans Zimmer, was a masterpiece, blending perfectly with the video.

 

The visual effects were great, they look real!

The movie received positive reviews from critics, and grossed 758.6 million dollars against a budget of 165 million, being the 10th highest grossing movie of 2014.

Cinema Score audiences gave the movie a B+ on an A+ to F scale.

Interstellar was nominated for 5 Oscars and won one, Best Visual Effects (It was not nominated for Best Movie,reason why I don't like and don't care for the Oscars or any other award show, as they don't even nominate good,inspiring movies born of great minds with amazing ideas, only boring dramas in which nothing ever happens).

The movie is for free on Kanopy, Hoopla ; 30 days free on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads; 10 days free on Foxtel Now ; 7 days free on Paramount+, Paramount+ on Amazon Prime Channels, Paramount+ on The Roku Channel; for rent / sale on Amazon, AppleTv, Fandango at Home, Fetch.

Rating : It's so money!