Cows in Space

Rating: 1/10 (11 December 2013)

The idea for this film was very good and the film itself should also have been. The effects were great and it must have had a huge budget.
Unfortunately, as with most things Hollywood, it was utterly ruined by a terribly cheesy and utterly unbelievable script. Some, in fact most, of the lines were just awful. Do people really buy into this stuff? It is extremely unrealistic.
It really was akin to a low budget soap opera or an episode of 'which ever country you are in has talent'. I suspect the focus was on the characters 'journey' , 'as people'. You get the idea.
On many occasions this completely detracted form the story to make it unrealistic. Bullock is running out of oxygen for, what seems like, an age and panicking for, what seems like, an age, and needs to get into the space station. When she gets there, starved of oxygen, they decide to have a cheesy 'heart to heart' conversation before she eventually attempts to enter. You, well I at least, sat there thinking, 'hold on, you are about to die...right?'. This includes discussing what colour eyes they think Clooney has. Its just bad !
More over, Sandra Bullock has got to be the most wooden, emotionless actress I have ever seen. Does she really get paid huge sums of money for her 'acting'? They could have used a real bullock, called it 'Cows in Space' and it would have been more believable. I knew she was in it before watching, which filled me with dread, but then the idea was my kind of film.
In the beginning the space station they are space walking on gets hit, at high velocity, with debris, resulting in catastrophic damage and many dead. Bullock is thrown through space, hitting the space station at a very high speed and swung around on a large arm. Her response was completely out of sync with the situation and far too mild. She sounded like someone jogging ! Am i the only one who sees this? She sounds, acts and looks the same whether on a speeding bus about to be blown up, in a television interview or being thrown around space at high speed. It's like she's on prozac! Who in their right mind would cast her? She's a prime example that being reasonably pretty means more in Hollywood than being talented.
In summary the idea and basic story is great, as are the effects. The makers unfortunately went with 2 big names that are handsome or pretty rather that actors could do it justice and added a cheesy 'Hollywood' script, thus ruining it. Avoid !