Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Interstellar Review

     I broke one of my rules last night, I went to go see a movie in the theatre alone. But nobody could go with me. But if I didn't go I would've broken a bigger rule. That rule being when Christopher Nolan releases a movie, go see it in theatres. 

    Interstellar is a film directed by Christopher Nolan obviously starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Micheal Caine, Casey Affleck, and Mackenzie Foy. The movie takes place sometime in the future and Earth's food supply is running out. Matthew McConaughey who plays a former astronaut has to lead a team of explorers through a wormhole to find a new home for humanity.

    I'll start off with the negatives, this movie has structural problems, I have a few issues with the script and the final 10 minutes of the film in my opinion were unnecessary. If the film ended before that it would've been perfect. 

    Now onto the positives. This movie is directed fantastically. Christopher Nolan did a phenomenal job with this project. This is by far the most ambitious movie that came out this year. Hans Zimmer's score is fantastic as per usual. Matthew McConaughey is fantastic in this movie. He really drove this movie I really cared for his character and his family back home. This is also a visual experience. I sat in the theatre absolutely mesmerized by the fantastic visuals in the film. I also didn't notice any CGI, the movie looked so real. The story was very interesting. As I stated above I was fine with many aspects of how the film ended. I just felt they could've shortened it up by 10 minutes. And it would've provided more of an emotional pull.  

    Overall this movie has flaws, but the positive aspects completely overweigh the negatives. This is definitely a day one blu-ray purchase for me. I'm going to go to the store the morning the movie gets released and pick it up. If you have not seen Interstellar I highly recommend it. I'm going to give it a solid 4 out of 5 stars.

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