Graphically spectacular but wears off and descends into a farce.

Rating: 2/10 (11 January 2014)

First of all i'll start with the positives. the film's graphics are spectacular and for the first few minutes you feel immersed in the experience. Also the sound in the collisions worked very well.
However it didn't take very long for the novelty of it all to wear off. Which gets to me on to my first major problem. The script. It feels as though an amateur put together a script in 5 minutes and repeated it at least 4 times to make the film last an hour or so. It was basically a trip to 4 different space stations that were all hit by debris and the journey between them.
Then to my 2nd problem. The film tried to be authentic and yet there were more holes in it than I could count. the biggest of course being (spoiler alert) George Clooney's death. It made no sense that when he had been stopped from drifting away by the awful Sandra Bullock it would have only taken tug to send him in the right direction and save his life. Instead She lets go and watches him drift away. And if the film was about space that is a big oversight considering there was no force being applied to Clooney to cause him to die.
Other less severe but still wrong for a film that tries to be so right issues include the length of time bullock survives with so little oxygen, her ability to drive a shuttle that she has never been able to before even though no 2 shuttles are the same or even the same language.
And finally my biggest problem with gravity. No prizes for guessing this one. Sandra bullock. Never before have I wished the main hero to die as much as I did with her. It felt like she screamed her way through the whole film, while constantly whining about being in space. It made the whole film feel cheap.
As a summary, I feel that the graphics that the movie contained did a very good job of masking an inadequate script. But even they couldn't stop the film from sliding after such a promising opening. The cast couldn't bring the script to life and Sandra Bullock was one of the worst lead characters I have ever seen. I wanted to like the film, but I lost all immersion every time the cast reappeared. I wish it was a documentary.