Let me just begin this review by saying that me and science are not best of friends. It’s not that I don’t get science. I do. I just don’t remember three-quarter of the things I learned back in school because my job does not require me to know science. Math, yes. Science, no. And to think that I was better in science when I was back in school.

Anyway, I watched the movie and spent the entire almost-3 hours confused. I do know it’s about wormhole, time and gravity. Also, Matthew McConaughey might be the next Doctor Who? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (If you watched it, you’ll get what I mean.)

In Interstellar, earthlings were starving to death because we were running out of food – crops were not growing because of dust storms that blanketed the earth with, well, dust. One dust storm led a former NASA pilot turned farmer, Cooper, to a dust formation in his daughter’s room, which was caused by some gravitational waves (or something). The dust formed a morse code for the coordinates to a secret NASA hiding place. There, he was persuaded to pilot a space shuttle that would help find another planet for human beings to live. Of course, such mission might involve him not coming back alive but if he did, his children might have turned older than he actually was due to the time difference between earth and other planets. He was determined still to save mankind, in particular, his family. But there is more which I can’t say without spoiling the entire almost-3-hour movie for you guys.

Like I said before, I don’t understand half the things that are mentioned in this movie. It’s not to say it’s a bad movie. It’s not. It’s actually pretty epic cinematic-wise. The whole space, other galaxies and dimensions piqued the interest of most of us who are curious of what’s out there. We love to watch, learn, listen to things about space exploration, which is the basic form of what the movie is about – a possibility that there might be another planet that can be home to us human beings, the alternative to Earth. Christopher Nolan brought that to the big screen and I’m pretty sure it would look pretty damn awesome in IMAX 3D.

But beyond that, I don’t understand what the characters were talking about and I feel like they are assuming that we might be able to understand them. But I don’t and I don’t think half of the people who watch the movie would understand. Wormhole is simple enough to understand but the whole talk about gravity, time and whatnot are just hard for me to grasp, not because it’s unbelievable, but because I don’t understand. Period. And they don’t try to use simple words. I get it and understand though because the characters are NASA scientists and I don’t think scientists use English when they talk to each other (har har har). They speak science and they themselves can understand whatever the heck they talk about. The problem is I don’t and it affects my enjoyment of the movie.

Anyway, since the movie is 169 minutes long, please do not bring your children. 1) They would not understand; 2) I don’t think their attention span would last for that long. They would start to get fidgety like the kid sitting behind me who started kicking my chair, which I’m pretty sure is due to absolute boredom.

I really want to give this movie a higher rating than the 3.5 out of 5 I’m giving. I love the music score, visual effects and the cast. If only someone who’s a genius was sitting beside me translating in actual English language what the heck they were talking about, this would be a higher rating.

The trailer…