INTERSTELLAR

Basically…

A growing problem with dust in the atmosphere is rendering planet Earth uninhabitable. A NASA physicist plans to move the planet’s population to a new home via a wormhole but has to send a team of researchers, including Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), to discover where in space is the best option.

In other words…

Gravity with a storyline.

The main men and leading ladies…

Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway get the job done without offending or particularly thrilling anyone on either side of the likability scale. Jessica Chastain and MacKenzie Foy play the old and young Murph adding the more emotional aspects of the movie.

In the chair…

With Memento, Inception and even The Prestige to an extent, another mindfuck was almost inevitable from Christopher Nolan. At almost three hours long he should have made better use of his editor though. And wrote a better third act...

So…?

What is it with big budget movies set in space getting overhyped this year? Just like Gravity this produced yet another anticlimax because of the who-ha surrounding its release. Let’s break it down – it’s a good idea and it unfolds well. It’s exciting, intriguing and original. It even has a great, unexpected cameo. But then the third act comes along and we’re slapped in the face by the bootstrap paradox. Did no one learn from Terminator?! The bootstrap paradox is when an item, person or information is passed from the future to the past, and is then used in the original timeline, creating a never ending loop with no origin. It’s not clever, it just doesn't work because adding something new would create an alternative timeline. Come on Nolan, you’re better than that.  

Worth the money?

If you don'd mind bootstrap paradoxes? Sure, even if it's just for that wave on the big screen.