Actors: Matthew
McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, Michael Caine
Rating: 9 out of 10, I’m a fairly jaded movie goer so when a
film makes me sit up in wonder it’s pretty special. The movie is set in the near future with the
world on the brink of total disaster and becoming unlivable. McConaughey plays
an astronaut given the mission to travel to some new worlds to locate a potential
new home world for the human race. It’s a long movie but well worth the escape
into space. As with all of the Nolan’s work there are levels within
levels. How he makes quantum physics and
time distortion interesting is almost as incomprehensible as the theories
themselves. Yet he succeeds through the medium of truly outstanding actors and
the central plot line of the love between a father and daughter. The last part
of the movie is what 2001: a Space Odyssey should have been. Instead of
Kubrick’s over the top visual blitzkrieg Nolan takes some even more complex
issues and provides enough clues for the audience to make sense of it. I was
dazzled, which is kind of cool, because it doesn’t happen all that often any
more.
MVP: McConaughey as
Coop lends real depth as a father torn beteween duty and lover of his family
