Visual and Technical Masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (21 October 2013)

At last, Hollywood gives us a very good space movie, since a long time ago.
I won't extend on the movie visuals, which almost every other review describe, I'll just say they are excellent and the changes of perspective that the cinematographer do (from the outside of the suit to the inside, from the astronaut view) are amazing, nothing short of masterful. The first long sequence at the beginning is also a technical marvel.
Sandra Bullock delivers and carries the movie all by herself.
My problems with the movie, hence, 2 stars less, are more because I'm a space program lover, of USA and Russia, and know a lot about it. I know that a mission specialist (Bullock's character) does not receive any training on flying spaceships (let alone a Soyuz craft), that almost killed the story for me. And the physics, when Kowalsky releases himself from Stone, his relative velocity is zero, so Stone just had to pull him normally and he would not be lost in space. I know this two points are in the movie for the drama, but for me, it keeps it from being a total masterpiece. Cuaron's other sci-fi flick, Children of Men, it's a masterpiece and still his best movie.
Nevertheless, I'm glad there's still people with the vision to do a movie like this, innovative and fresh, like in Hollywood glory days. Surely, Gravity stands apart from all the garbage films and forgettable summer blockbusters with mediocre and uncreative writing out there, a movie that has its name in history firmly assured. Do not miss.