One film I waited for this year was Interstellar, Christopher Nolan's thought-provoking sci-fi about a wormhole to another universe. What's on the other side?
We now know what's on the other side of the wormhole. It's a big, loud visual extravaganza that sure talks a lot about science.
In the not so distant future, Earth has no future. NASA has gone underground while society has gone agrarian. Crops are going extinct one by one. A new Dust Bowl has gone global. And it's just going to get worst before the end.
Former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) tries to keep his family safe from catastrophe. One day, he finds a "ghost" in his daughter Murphy's (Mackenzie Foy) room communicating in binary. The binary codes lead them to NASA's last base. The staff discovered a wormhole near Saturn; on the other side are a few potentially hospitable planets. Cooper, the only man left with space experience, is tasked with leading the mission.
Interstellar's visual expectations absolutely live up to the hype. The journey through the wormhole alone ought to warrant the film an Academy Award. Other visual highlights are a frozen planet (even the clouds are frozen!) and a journey through a black hole and eventually time and space. The film's comic relief characters, a pair of robots named TARS and CASE, are great animatronic creations.
The film's mammoth 169 minute runtime can definitely test a few attention spans. It explains all the quantum physics and stuff of its space travel but barely in layman's terms. At least one plot twist was introduced far too early to make it shocking. And the film's final plot twist had me going "huh?" A lot of simple plot details got lost in the shuffle.
Interstellar is a marvel of technical design. It deserves to be seen on the big screen. Its splendor alone is enough to make up for the overly-complex story.
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