Derivative and Dependent on Special Effects

Rating: 1/10 (10 November 2013)

This was my first visit to a 3D cinema and I am sorry to say the film was a major disappointment. The 3D in Gravity is great, but it does not carry the film nor make it worth paying to see. I feel I've been tricked by the critics, who either saw a different film, or have a hidden agenda.
Gravity has very few characters and they're exceedingly shallow, especially Clooney with his ridiculous chirpy optimism, totally unrealistic lack of fear and preoccupation with mildly sexual references. His only role is to help the main female protagonist survive a series of very similar obstacles put in her way.
I got the feeling that the goal of the filmmaker was to simply get the message across that "women make as good astronauts as men", while hoping that hype alone would bring in viewers and thereby negate the need for any discernible plot, dialogue or audience engagement.
The "no no no no" line Bullock repeats ad nausium (which is taken from Prometheus) as well as painfully obvious and patronising references to 'our frailty and dependence on earth' etc etc, only highlight Gravity's derivative nature.
This film is the end product of a huge hype exercise, it is just 3D special effects with a thin plot and an undercurrent of social and environmental messages, dare I say even propaganda. Its been done since the 1960s and rehashing it, not even very well, is just boring.
I saw people secretly looking at their watches in the theatre after about an hour.
Film of the Year? You've got to be joking!!