Excellent movie blew me away with stunning visuals, spoiler free and with spoiler halfway through

Rating: 9/10 (18 October 2013)

First off this is a one of a kind movie, that blew me away with excellent cinematography and story telling. The movie is a sci-fi space drama/thriller, but unlike most sci-fi space movies Gravity strives and excellently depicts a more realistic current setting, with the current technological limitations. This is were so many peoples reliability to the movie comes from.
Movie stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, and are the only two live faces you would see on the movie, with Sandra taking a large chunk of the screen time midway through the movie. With only two cast members floating in space the the directors/writers pulls off an amazing feat keeping the audience engaged in a relatively fast paced plot, not only in an adrenaline fulled high, but playing with the emotions and creating empathy connecting the actors to the audience. This is largely achieved by clever dialogue close up face shots coupled with excellent acting by Sandra. What was really stunning about the movie was the breathtaking rendering of space, the earth from space, as the continents cities rolls by and the sun is peaking from the horizon, all of the visuals was amazingly realistic with great attention to detail. The shots of Hubble and ISS was was exactly as they are in space, not to mention details to starts and constellations. The directors tried to get the physics as real as possible, but sadly there were some shortcoming, but a casual majority of movie goer might not be able to notice these, this did not degrade the movie experience completely, i would say some of the choices to flaunt those rules did enhance it, for instance the decisions not to use space visors so their faces could be visible from the suit helmet. This movie is definitely worth the 3D experience, a must watch movie.
OK, from this point on the will be some spoilers for a more critical review...
The movie starts of with Kowalski (played by Clooney) a space veteran, and his team on the space walk mission doing some repairs to Hubble space telescope. Rayan Stone (played by Bullock), a medical researcher is out on the space walk doing some repairs to the Hubble. Strapped to a arm out in the space totally out of her element and profession. Its one of those moments where you scratch your head whats she doing out there doing repairs, and turns out its her first space walk. The plot unfolds as the Russians decided the best way to get rid of one of their old satellites is to blow it up with a missile. Another absurd moment, the Russians with all their experience in the space arena, blows up a satellite with a missile, this also while a active space walk was going on. Usually defunct satellites forced to re-enter earths atmosphere, where they burn up, and the remains safely crash on some safe zone. Anyway this explosion creates a chain reaction, which creates debris moving in hyper speed which are moving faster than speeding bullets, this scenario is somewhat plausible, these debris moves in and destroys the repair teams shuttle and on impact flings Sandra character hurtling into space. The first thing is faster than speeding bullet debris is seen coming their way, while of course it would be impossible to see such fast moving objects, but this can be overlooked as it created the great cinematic effect.
Moving further on there was one scene where physical laws was so blatantly twisted and disregarded it almost ruined the movie. This is where Mat Kowalski had to un-tether himself apparently because the momentum was pulling him and Rayan Stone both, so Clooneys character does this and floats away to die, all the while they were both pretty stationary and stable, physically speaking there should be no force acting on him. Although this most blatant abuse of physical law to further the plot, the story as a whole was pretty OK.