The best 156 shots you'll ever see!

Rating: 9/10 (2 December 2013)

Gravity is a technical and directorial tour de force from Alfonso Cuarón sure to win some Oscars. Sandra Bullock almost single handily carries the film with an excellent screen performance. The technical complexity of this film which spent 4 years in development because technology wasn't advanced enough is quite mind-boggling. The opening shot is one continuous 17-min shot and the whole film is comprised of only 156 shots! Despite this low shot count there is plenty of complex camera movement. The visual effects are also very realistic and some of those VFX shots will go down in history as some of the most impressive ever seen. The 3D effect which in some movies doesn't work at all works very well here. This really is a film which you HAVE to see in the cinema if only for those space shots of the astronauts above our big blue planet. A very highly recommended masterpiece!