Gravity is light on dialog too

Rating: 3/10 (31 January 2015)

This is a visually stunning, spectacularly shot movie about outer space. The special effects are perfect. The movie is about outer space because it sure isn't about any people. The real problem with this movie is that you don't know or care about any of the three characters. Cowboy Joe, who goes tooling around in his space-go-cart, wasting precious fuel, that, gee, you may just need it in case there is an emergency. Then there's Doctor-Science- Annie, who after way too little training, doesn't even belong in outer space, and then there's Abbu, I don't know anything about this guy other than he dances around on his tether like a drunk monkey. I hope to God, NASA isn't really sending anyone up like this. The faulty O-rings are bad enough but with these loose nuts in space, we may have stuff crashing on our heads any minute now. The little you do know about these characters, just annoys you.
It is the type of movie where you imagine there is no script. Seriously. There is no dialog. Unless you consider constant NASA chatter, dialog. It is all procedure and dry and unfortunately very boring. I usually do not do reviews about movies I do not like. But this one got so much hype, I feel I had to counter it to some extent, being this is a vastly overrated movie to the point of being one of the most overrated ever. This movie has great special effects and is, as aforementioned, visually stunning, but all studios larger than a garage do CGI nowadays. All the Jurassic Parks had seamless special effects, that was a decade ago, it is not so special anymore. It is expected. Character development and crisp dialog hold up in any era and this movie has none of that. If you want a gravity less space movie, see this. If you want to actually hear dialog and care about the characters involved, then avoid this one.