[Spoilers Ahead]
Christopher Nolan's Interstellar epitomizes the strengths and weaknesses of his most recent output. On the one hand, it is dazzlingly beautiful with images that are nothing short of awe-inspiring. It plays with ideas that simply have not been experimented with yet by other mainstream filmmakers. The fifth-dimensional tesseract may be the most visually resplendent and thought-provoking set-piece of his entire career. And yet it slogs through its almost 3-hour run-time. I'm not exactly sure how, but Interstellar is simultaneously under-plotted and over-plotted. Additionally, much of the interior cinematography is too cramped and over-relies on medium shots and close-ups. The result is that there are times when we don't have a clear indication of where certain characters are in relation to each other. The most egregious example is a scene where Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon go for a walk on an ice planet. It appears that they walk just a few yards away from the base-camp. But when Damon tries to kill McConaughey, it takes Anne Hathaway almost a minute to fly the spaceship to their location. Once she finds McConaughey, Damon somehow teleports back to the base-camp and steals one of the spaceships. Maybe there is an explanation for how this happened. But it wasn't readily apparent. And I paid close attention.
8/10
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