Gravity

Rating: 9/10 (24 March 2014)

A technical masterpiece, proved at the Oscars, that Alfonso Cuarón brings to us. The story is very simple, a medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in orbit.
"Life in space is impossible"
This sentence proves itself in the movie, it's obviously very dangerous to work in space (reparing satellites) and to land on the moon (but we did it!). It all seemed to be good until a Russian satellite is hit by a missile (on purpose by the Russians, to destroy it) but the debris of it end up hitting on Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney). After the first hit. the timer is set, the debris will come, and they'll have to be prepared.
The plot is pretty straight forward, but the way they pull it off is brilliant. The character development was really good. Ryan had a daughter once, but she died very young because of a stupid accident, and at some points in the movie you understand why she would give up her life, to reunite with her lost child, or simply to give up because no one will care (we can see that she is a lonely person affected by tragic events). Matt gives the idea of a experienced and very calm astronaut (much like Clooney's usual characters), but we don't know much about him except some stories he's always talking about. But it's OK, the main character really is Ryan, it's her character that's important to this movie and like Cuarón said at the Oscars, Sandra Bullock is Gravity.
At some points in the movie without noticing I found myself holding my breath in certain moments. It's a claustrophobic movie. That good. The change between sound and no sound is brilliant, that's why I did that, along with the change I would hold my breath to experience the same as they would. In terms of sound mixing, like I said it was well done with the sound matching the experience of the movie. Excellent visual experience, beautiful images of the earth and surroundings, a real breakthrough in special effects, and personally the best movie yet in 3D. This is absolutely worth seeing in 3D, in fact it's necessary to obtain the full movie experience. Cuarón and everyone involved in the movie should be proud of themselves.