White Woman in Trouble.... In Spaaaaaace!

Rating: 8/10 (20 October 2013)

This movie is actually pretty good - for what it is. The movie is an experience, a wild ride, feels like a first-person-shooter video game at times. I saw this in 3d and was treated to amazing special effects. I mean, seriously, how did they even film this stuff? CGI is pretty good these days...
But I must level some criticism at this film: In the beginning, our protagonista keeps breathing too hard. Sounds like a petty complaint, but it really grated on me. I mean, c'mon lady, you are a trained professional, you are not physically exerting yourself, and you know you are running out of oxygen, so stop breathing so effin' hard all the time. But fortunately eventually the film stops emphasizing her breath so much.
And some parts of the movie didn't flow right. Like what happens with George Clooney's character was not very convincing. The movie doesn't care about him. At. All. He's in the same situation as Sandra Bullock's character, but when any little thing happens to her, it's Drama with a capital 'D', but when anything happens to him, the film wants us to feel like, "oh well, it's not happening to the pretty white lady so no matter".
A few things seemed kind of unrealistic, not as bad as most space- thrillers, but it's there. And the plot is a little bit too non-existent, the ending a little bit too open-ended. But oh well, that's not what they were going for now was it.
Despite my criticism, I highly recommend this movie. It is a truly state- of-the-art movie, technologically and cinematically. This is what movies in the 21st century are supposed to be like! The first scenes of the movie are amazing, such beautiful shots of space, and the film masterfully builds up suspense like nothing I've ever experienced before.