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Interstellar (2014)






Interstellar The basic story
In a not too distant future, the Earth is dying, and so is humanity. The former NASA pilot Joseph "Coop" Cooper is asked to be the pilot on a mission to save humanity, by finding a new planet to live on.

NASA has discovered a an artificial wormhole near Saturn, and sent three manned probes through the hole, looking for new habitable worlds. Potentially there is three habitable worlds on the other side, but they lost contact with two of the probes, so now they are sending another team to investigate the worlds on the other side. With them, they also have what is known as "Plan B", seeds and fertilized eggs to start over on another world, if it turns out to be impossible to evacuate humanity from Earth.

This turns out to be both dangerous and difficult.


How was it?
Long! Beautifully done, but long. The story isn't bad, and while the science in the movie is crap, it makes sense within the story. They just spend way too much time on describing the scenery and not nearly enough on the problems they are trying to solve, the action or the story. This could have been an outstanding movie, if they had focused on the story about what they were doing and why. They has some really interesting ideas going. Instead they focused on the visuals and some sappy Hollywood cliches towards the end.

If you like movies like 2001 or Solaris, this may be your thing. Personally I'd say it is the type of movie you watch, if there is nothing better on one of the other channels. It isn't a bad movie, it just isn't very good either.


Rating
★★★★★


169 min.
Color


- Michael Pilgaard