Alright alright alright! Academy Award winner Matthew
McConaughey and a star-studded (no pun intended) supporting cast shine in director
Christopher Nolan’s complex and surprisingly sentimental spacefaring
sci-fi epic ‘Interstellar,’ an awe-inspiring movie that is grand and ambitious in
scope yet delivered on so many levels, opening our eyes and minds to
possibilities while exploring the very meanings of humanity and faith.
‘Interstellar’ isn’t one of those ‘alarmist’ movies from Al Gore or liberals about the imperative of saving our environment. If you decide to miss the movie based on this misperception, that’s unfortunate because it’s really a cinematic tour de force. Far from propaganda with a liberal agenda, ‘Interstellar’ delves into the nature of humanity and our basic instinct to survive as a species against impossible odds, even if it means making tremendous short-term sacrifices. McConaughey delivered another stellar performance as the calm and soft-spoken space cowboy Cooper and brought his trademark southern charm to the role. Underpinned by the touching relationship between Cooper and his daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy and Jessica Chastain), ‘Interstellar’ proves that it has plenty of heart amidst all the drama, outer space adventure, cosmology and astrophysics on relativity, space-time, wormholes, black holes, singularities, gravitational anomalies and multiple dimensions throughout its nearly three-hour running time.
Like its spiritual forebears
‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ ‘Solaris’ and ‘Sunshine,’ ‘Interstellar’ might leave
you head-scratching a bit with questions left unanswered, but that doesn’t
diminish it’s being a remarkable, profound and deeply satisfying movie which
will leave you spellbound with a sense of marvel and wonder at our place in the
universe. And why '2047' in the review's title? Because Kubrick's 1968 seminal sci-fi masterpiece was set 33 years into the future, of course.
Grade: A
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