Gravity is the most creatively genius film of our time. Alfonso Cuarón challenges the entire industry to make original films. Truly Magnificent.

Rating: 9/10 (26 October 2013)

Gravity is the most creatively genius film of our time. Alfonso Cuarón challenges the entire industry to make original films. Truly Magnificent.
Cuarón decides to compose the film from a series of incredibly long takes. Because of this, it is nearly impossible to not be captivated. The camera's lens essentially becomes the audience's perspective; causing viewers to look on as if they were drifting throughout space with the characters in the film. A truly intimate choice for cinematography that is executed brilliantly.
Cuarón takes a great risk, with not only making a 91 minute film, but essentially conveying that the film is a true minute-to-minute ratio of what the audience is actually seeing. The story clearly takes place over a several hour time period but is conveyed as if what the audience is watching is "real time," with the exception of a handful of jump cuts. Cuarón takes a bold move, and succeeds in essentially tricking the audience and changing their sense of time to further entrance the viewers.
There is only one critique i can give the film: the visuals were so beautiful, innovative, magnificent, and close to perfection than any movie ever made, that the emotional dialogue literally couldn't keep up with the visuals. During the scenes where dialogue is supposed to hit the film's themes home with the audience, it simply cannot. Though the themes are still very simple and obvious, they are not as powerful as Cuarón intended them to be. The audience was probably predicted to cry aloud during some line deliveries by Bullock, but could not due to the fact that they were still in complete shock at what they just witnessed.
Gravity is a combination of modern technology and classic story. Gravity is a testimony that original films still exist. Brilliant.