Christopher Nolan's ninth film (including Following, as I do), Interstellar was released today and I just had to go see it. And was I pleased? Kinda, yeah.

I'm a HUGE Nolan fan. I really like all of his films; he's my favourite film director and he even happened to make my all-time personal favourite film, Inception back in 2010. So there's a lot for me to expect from him.

Interstellar was the Nolan film I'd been waiting for for quite some time now. Knowing he always cites Star Wars: A New Hope and 2001: A Space Odyssey as some of his favourite films and biggest inspirations made me want him to try doing something like this himself. And he finally did!

I did really, really, really enjoy the film. Nolan knows how to hold the audience no matter what. It's interesting throughout, compelling, occasionally tense and quite emotional at points. I thought that Matthew McConaughey did an excellent job (one of my favourite roles in a Nolan film thanks to him)! The score from Hans Zimmer is arguably one of his best (and that's saying a lot!). It's also very visually pretty (some nice cinematography from Nolan's new cinematographer at times). The concept is clever and is executed nicely, but I do feel it does fall apart at times - maybe trying a little too hard... At points I felt it was trying to be this generation's 2001 a little too much, but it didn't bother me all that much.

It is nice to see such an ambitious film in such a way that it obviously has had a lot of time and care put into it. It really shows. I still hold by my opinion that Nolan is yet to make a bad film. It just isn't AS great as some of his previous works in my opinion.

Overall rating: 7.4/10 (may change depending on second viewing thoughts).