After I left the cinema, I couldn't help myself from repeating and repeating "THE MOVIE WAS REALLY GOOD!" to my friends over the phone. The movie INTERSTELLAR features black holes, theory of relativity, sacrifices, blight, fate, fifth dimension, social responsibility, empathy, love/human relationships, journey vs. destination, glory/succession, and Murphy's Law, which makes it hard to really pinpoint which genre this movie belongs to, ranging from familial love, to social conflict, to sci-fi madness.
Earth has become a place where agriculture is the only way of human survival instead of high-tech inventions. Humans grow crops with the constant worry and fear of the dust storm that continues to threaten to end their supply of food. The people no longer believed that pioneer engineering can help save humanity. Our time on Earth comes close to an end and desperate and cosmically large measures have to be taken.
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A pilot-turned-farmer and father to his beloved daughter, Murphy (young Murphy played by Mackenzie Foy) and later played by Jessica Chastain), and his son, Tom (played by Timothee Calamet and Casey Affleck), Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) deciphered a series of lines mysteriously formed by the dust storm which led him into a secret NASA base. From there, he met his professor, Professor Brand (Michael Caine) and his daughter, Dr. Brand (Anne Hathaway). After some serious briefing, Cooper agreed to go on an interstellar voyage to search for another suitable planet to save the human race along with a Dr. Brand and a few other members from NASA. However, it did not really go well with his family. 
Feeling somewhat reluctant to leave his family but also feeling responsible to save his family and the family of millions of others, the film team embarked on a journey to find a destination by all means.
The movie is directed by Christopher Nolan, who also directed other blockbuster movies such as The Dark Knight Rises and Inception, and has really blew away his audiences AGAIN with this one. Praises also go to Matthew McConaughey's outstanding performances with his pathos that really moves the heart of the audiences in moments of betrayal, hardships, anger, love, and regret.
While it is always quite a risk making a movie based solely on astrophysics concept, the storyline was very well written and the drama was brilliantly executed with great cinematography and digital surround sound that seems so real which constantly amazes audiences.
The concept on the other hand was actually less confusing and more thought-provoking which largely makes sense even to audiences who don't do sciences. It actually echoes some recollection of A Spacetime Odyssey. It might also excite many other scientists around the globe as the representation of the black hole in the movie is really something we never would've thought of. The team has really developed a comprehensible idea without changing the point of view too much to produce a very understandable, tactile imagery that could both be true and stranger than fiction.
The casting of the film does seem quite jarring though. I'm not really saying that the casts ruined the entire movie, it's just that it's an weird combination of actors to team up in a rare occasion where all of them are astronauts dressed up in spacesuits with NASA written all over it. They just don't seem to fit with the whole idea of being saviors of mankind.
The original soundtrack played throughout the movie by Hans Zimmer was however was blaring over the intense moments where the team slingshots through a black hole but was reserved at the less exciting parts of boring conversations. The music was too loud it drowned the most of the dialogues that explains about the theories of relativity and fifth dimensions. But I've got to say thumbs up for Hans Zimmer as the score really captures the spirit of the audiences to feel in the moment. It didn't ruin everything though; there are some silent moments which are really nice, illustrating the quietness of space
Nolan really embraced this movie, making sure that everything is well defined, including details to fill up plot holes much to the film making moviegoers have come to expect from writer-director Christopher Nolan. Even though the movie was 169 minutes long, it really felt like a 4-hour movie. Despite that, the pacing of the movie is one of the things that keeps the movie going and most of the characters getting involved. The scenes alternate between what was going on in the outer space and what was going on back in Earth. Not to mention, the screenplay is much more spectacular than Nolan's previous blockbuster movie, Inception, which also features time travel.
Overall, INTERSTELLAR really is a captivating story well-weaved with contents that are brilliant and unprecedented. Nolan really did a wonderful job of saving mankind. It is an emotional drama fused with intelligence and breath-taking visualizations filled with elements that keeps the movie alive. Totally incredible.
WE GIVE IT A 4.5/5 STARS!
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