The 'cast away' in the space

Rating: 7/10 (10 January 2014)

Well I just came here to tell that Gravity is not that great as an 'overall film' at all. I mean, it is flawless, but it is way too simple and unoriginal. It's basically another film of people trapped in somewhere. In fact, it looks perfectly like 'Apollo 13'(Ron Howard,1996). It's another 'mission impossible' kind of film, and that's really reaching the limit of the overusing. It has an existential conflict(I guess?) going on during a part of the film, a small part in fact, but it's perhaps serving to excuse for apologists to defend the lack of any depth or whats ever in the film, with arguments like 'well there is some philosophy on here'.
Personally,I think there's no problem in being unoriginal at all, even because it's really hard to be 100%original nowadays, but, there is a problem in being 'a lot' unoriginal. It's the 'boring' factor. I mean, a great screenwriter once said "If you are doing a predictable film, a film that will make audiences thinking in all the end possibilities, you already failed" well, I think it's a extreme line, but in part, it's completely true. It was obvious that she was going to 'survive' in the end or die in a tragic way, so no surprise at all anyways. Perhaps, there are always distractions in the film trying to make you think that the film is going to another way when in the reality, it's not. Most visually distractions, and admittedly it did catch me a few times, mesmerized by some stunning scenes an by the allegory presented. But it didn't worked always, pretty much the opposite. All the dramatic situations came way too forced. Survive after all the chaos looked even inevitably after all, in fact. In this aspect it look alike 'Cast Away', yeah that's right, the film with Tom Hanks, that can't escape from the island due to the chaos that always hit him, but you somehow knows that he was going to escape in the end. It's in that way Gravity follows.
Technically, it's a strong film. Cinematography it's top notch, the editing is a great contender for wins, I mean, I loved the balance of the slowly paced scenes with the fast paced ones. Thought the editors did a very good job indeed. The sound editing also fantastic again, it's a great film in these technical aspects.
The acting? Meh. Very average. All Sandra Bullock did was yelling during the most intense scenes, and making nervous faces. It was without any kind of intensity. I don't think I need to mention Clooney, because he did even less than Bullock. Maybe a bit more of emotion and intensity could've improved a lot my impression about this film. Well, that's my review, and my rating it's 7.2/10. Fair.