More effects and technology than acting opportunities

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2014)

I am not an eager follower of sci-fi movies / space dramas without real enemies to fight, and the reasons I decided to watch Gravity were good actors and short duration (the latter is uncommon for such movies); true, I had read about high praise, but I did not get it under my skin :) Therefore, I observed a pleasant and talented actress Sandra Bullock and her similar counterpart George Clooney in the course of their actions... They did well as usual - although Bullock had much bigger role and I recalled similar Clooney from Solaris - and everything was decent/good, but no wow! feeling... As for the plot/script, even for me as non-physicist, there were too many odd phenomena, and floating Post-It notes and pens in the spaceship seemed more like a practical joke. Of course, cinematography and directing are well done, but all in all - with no new angles in the script and the ending's predictable nature, I am unable to consider it conceptional in the movie industry, just a well-polished creation.