Great Visuals but a bit too unbelievable for me

Rating: 5/10 (19 October 2013)

As a lot of hype has been going around about this film I decided to catch it up at a local theatre. I was surprised to see the show was sold out (a rarity these days as many movies run at empty hall or just half full capacity these days). I admit I went with a lot of expectations to watch this movie and after watching overall let down! There are far too many unbelievable situations in this movie which requires a lot of suspension of disbelief, for example in the beginning of the movie the 3 astronauts and crew (inside the spaceship) have to face an avalanche of debris racing towards them at super high speed and though 1 astronaut and the crew get killed the other 2 (clooney and bullock) escape unscathed with no injury. Then Bullock's cable snaps and she goes drifting away at high speed and her oxygen levels are at almost zero levels yet George clooney manages to save her and pull her towards and they both go at high speed towards the Chinese spacestation to which they crash at super high speed and guess what neither of get injured, no fractures, broken ribs hell not a scratch on them! For a movie which has aimed to realistically create space it was too much for me to watch both of the main leads escape unscathed! And this is just the beginning! For the next 1 hour there is one after another of near similar situations like this where the main lead almost gets killed but by fluke or something gets saved and finally she manages to get back to earth where even after crash landing her pod sinks into the bottom of the lake and she manages to somehow escape and come to the surface! I can suspend my disbelief for certain kinds of movies such as fast paced action movies such as those starring James Bond which has unbelievable stunt sequences and the hero escapes without a scratch on him but when I go to watch a movie like Gravity which is hyped to be a very realistic movie taking place in space its hard for me to suspend my disbelief! By the way though Bullock's performance was quite OK (compared to her other films) I personally feel she was a wrong choice for this film! I somehow couldn't accept her as some sort of a woman alone in distress trying to save herself! I feel the original choice for this film Natalie Portman would have been a great choice for this film! She has that innocent look to her face plus has an intellectual look to her as well! To conclude would I recommend this movie? yes if you are the kind who loves fast paced scifi action with lots of near misses kind of situation but if you are the kind who is expecting this to be in the level of say 2001: a space odyssey you might wanna give it a miss!