Why I love my darling wife...

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 2013)

I saw the trailer for Gravity and was distinctly unimpressed... Sandra Bullock is hardly Jodie Foster and looked like a very stock storyline. However, my wife insisted we went and so I got to see it this week in 3-D while away on holiday.
Conclusions... absolutely fantastic, a must see and one of a very short list of films (see below) which re-defines the genre. It is without doubt one of the best pieces of cinematography, nay art, I've seen on a movie screen and whilst the concerns over the plot listed elsewhere on this review site and are largely correct - so what and who cares...? After endless green monsters created using millions of dollars of CGI, here is technology being used to its greatest effect and really advancing cinema as an art form again. Breath-taking from start to finish and genuinely a film that really gains from the 3-D enhancement/effects.
Others on here complain also about the length of the movie... me too, but in a slightly different way. It seemed no more than ten minutes long and whilst the run time if 90 minutes is short by modern, dare one say bloated standards, it literally flies - pardon the pun - by and you won't believe how the time went. I'm not a huge movie-goer and think they are wildly over-priced these days but this was one where I walked out of the cinema and thought I'd happily pay again the same evening to watch it again.
I'm going to ruin my credibility here by making the links now but if you were young enough/old enough to be amazed by 'Top Gun' back in the '80s (for the visuals I mean of course, silly) and similarly the advances that were 'Aliens 2', 'Apollo 13' and 'District 9' then this is, to use the corniest of links, the next evolution of Kubrick's black obelisk and takes the sci-fi genre onto the next level. Sadly my wife blew her credibility by making watch 'Elysium' next, but I still forgive her as 'Gravity' really is a marvellous, must-see film.