This won awards?

Rating: 4/10 (14 July 2014)

I thought for sure the movie was going to be good considering the actors within. The fact that it won awards over other movies, made me think there is no way this isn't going to be a good movie. I was wrong. It takes More then just a few fancy CGI scenes, and some explosions make a movie. So where do I begin. The technical part of this movie is lacking. Its starts off with a scene of astronauts just carelessly floating around outside the ship, along with two just having a nice little conversation in space with no apparent reason to believe they are aware of their surroundings. Warned of impending trouble and they seem to just take their time. One goes floating out into space and the spinning made me feel like I was ill. Disregard the fact that if that had happened the game is over for that crew member. No way another would risk loosing himself to go after that person in all that turmoil. Then comes macho Clooney. They have been up there all that time and they know nothing about each other? OK yeah sure. He is in peril just as much as she is and they just nicely have a conversation while floating back to more trouble. Character development is not there. We have no emotional state in their survival. Beyond the clichés and unreal options, the movie falls flat. We got one picking buttons via eenie meenie minnie mo and another who just gives up without a fight after risking it all to rescue someone. I cant tell you anymore suffice to say the films ending isn't much better then what you already see leading up to it. You just are left with a "That was it? feeling and a wow I wasted that hour of my life. I give 4 stars only cause of the two actors trying to make it work. Otherwise the film is a flop. Gotta do better Hollywood if you are going to keep our attention.