Visually stunning, story-wise underwhelming

Rating: 8/10 (19 October 2013)

I liked this film a lot. The opening sequence was intense, and the film kept up the visual drama from start to finish. It did absolutely everything right in terms of technique, angles, shots, composition, lighting, reflexions, POV to pan, everything technical was done well. The story was okay, and the characters were 2-dimensional, and the story arc was terribly predictable.
I knew the entire plot from the moment that the astronauts' radios announced that there was debris coming their way -- I knew the rest of the film's plot all the way until the final shot of the film, which took a long time to get to.
I liked the film a lot, though. It is a masterpiece of editing and shooting, and it's a reminder that film technology has reached a pinnacle and we can now use this technology to tell stories worth telling. This story? Could have used some work.