Interstellar

In the current age of cinema of over the -top computer generated commercial cinema, Christopher Nolan offers an alternative mix of action, emotion with an added hint of art-house cinema.

Previously Nolan has taken us back to the 19th Century, a fictional city (Gotham) and a trip into the mind of ones conscious. in 2014, space is the new venture and within this journey he has employed Matthew McConaughey (Cooper) and Anne Hathaway (Amelia), David Gyasi and West Bentley (Doyle), and not forgetting TARS, the intellectual AI machine, to search for a new habitat in an interstellar adventure.

The film is set in dystopia future where the crops are being plagued with blight and dust. Earth has also succumbed to propaganda in order to set a false sense of security and economical distribution by suggesting that NASA are no longer in existence and that all ventures into space were nothing more staged performances. 

Michael Caine is of course back (his sixth film with Nolan), and his role in the film as Professor Brand is to persuade Cooper onto his ship to help prove his theory, and to save the Earth. 

The film is epic! Interstellar adventure involving complex quantum theory with help from the theoretical physicist, Kip Thorne. The science is sound, and the adventure is huge, but there is definitely something missing; the story. It starts well, but there are some many errors and the plot holes are larger than any supernova. 

The film starts well, but ultimately falls flat near the end with many, 'what', 'how', moments. 

I'm still a big fan of Nolan's work, but I would not rank this epic within his top 5 films, although it is better than his previous effort, 'The Dark Knight Rises'.