Interstellar

Intersteller

Rating 6.5 out of 10

Paramount Pictures did a great job marketing this movie.  They showed a few clips that barely told what the movie was actually about yet I REALLY wanted to see it.  Still wanted to see it when I found out it was a three hour movie.  Is getting great reviews so I went on opening day.

The movie starts in the near future.  The Earth is dying.  The soil is so depleted due to overpopulation that it won't grow food.  Giant sandstorms are the norm blowing in out of nowhere and lasting for days.  Our star Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is an ex-military pilot turned farmer that is struggling to find something that will still grow to feed his family.  He meets up with his old military leader who shows Coop his plans of a rocket ship to a far off galaxy that will hopefully support human life.  It's many years away and to get there they have to use placed (by whom we don't know) worm holes that speed up the process.  The survival of everyone on earth depends on them.  Somehow three days before liftoff they don't have a main pilot and Cooper is recruited to run the show.

The acting in this movie is very good.  Anne Hathaway is good (even with her still super short haircut that I don't care for), Jessica Chastain (wow), Michael Caine, John Lithgow and Casey Affleck.  The visuals are even better.  It's nothing short of fantastic.

What keeps the movie from having a higher rating for me was it's WAY more complicated than it needs to be.  At times I felt like I was dropped into a class full of rocket scientists discussing at great lengths how worm holes and space travel really works.  Not to mention how in certain areas an hour on this planet equals seven years on earth.  They could have made it far easier to understand without completely dumbing it down.

If you have any desire to see this movie and I did enjoy it- I would say it needs to be seen on a big screen.  The bigger the better.  I saw it on the IMAX screen at NCG and am glad I did.