For someone who hates (more like HATES) action movies, saying that “Interstellar,” one of the most action-packed movies of all time, is now one of my favorite movies says a lot. Everything from the music to the acting came together as not only a movie, but a powerful mind game.

You can thank the world-renowned director, Christopher Nolan, best known for “The Dark Knight,” “Batman Begins” and “Inception,” for this mind game movie.

Award winning actors Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, who are the protagonists in the film, brought magic to not only the story, but the movie as well. Cooper played by McConaughey, lives in a world from the future about 70-100 years from now. Cooper’s father, played by John Lithgow, is the grandfather who tries to make sense of everything that goes on in the film.

For example, people are starving because fossil fuels are running extremely low, and everyone’s last hope to survive relies on farmers. But he wants more than the simple, farmer lifestyle. As a well-known scientist and astronaut, NASA decides to send him and three others up into space to find another planet able to sustain life.

But he has a hard decision to make – should he spend more time looking for this maybe-even-non-existent planet, or return back home.

And there’s also another problem. Time. Time becomes both relative and relevant in the film. One hour on one planet is seven years on earth. And having a very tight-knit relationship with his daughter Murph, played by Mackenzie Foy and Jessica Chastain, makes the decision even more difficult.

Throughout this magical and thought-provoking film, many themes arise. Betrayal, love, heartbreak, courage and sacrifice all play significant roles.

One could say that this movie mimics a plethora of overused themes and plot ideas of other space movies such as “2001: A Space Odyssey” or “Gravity,” but Interstellar used them in a new and fresh way. The time setting was choice because many people do wonder about our next century and what people have to look forward to – food shortages, fossil fuel shortages, and water, oh my.

I very much respect a film that can keep one on their toes pretty much the whole way through. Movies that involve such a complex storyline are hard to pull off and Nolan completely accomplished this task. My advice, see it more than once, because you may learn something new every time you see it. And believe me, you’ll want to see it over and over again.