Visually stunning, with an, unfortunately, weak script

Rating: 5/10 (7 November 2013)

If you go into "Gravity" with the right mindset, you'll really enjoy it. It's a visually spectacular movie from beginning to end. I don't think there's been anything like it on screen before. Unfortunately, it suffers from weak writing, mostly towards the end.
Ryan Stone (Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (Clooney) are on a mission to a space station when the Russians blow up a satellite and the debris from the satellite destroys their ride home (a space shuttle) and kills the rest of their crew. The rest of the movie is about their desperate attempt to get home. More debris comes, Oxygen runs low. Things come untethered. It all gets very suspenseful and keeps you on the edge of your seat, because there's a genuine sense that they could die up there.
But in the end, it doesn't pay off. The writers end up taking the easy way out, and what could've been a very powerful existential film ends up being just another feel-good movie with good visuals. Worth seeing for the visuals and the suspense, but not so much for the story.