It's a Movie, Folks, Not High-Brow Fiction

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2015)

It's no spoiler to state at the outset that "Gravity" won no best-script awards. Why? The writing is third-rate. Maybe even intentionally so. Editing apparently left plot connections, and with them story-telling logic, on the cutting-room floor, and you can count the clichéd lines recycled from Westerns and lost-at-sea flicks.
But so what. This movie features stunning visuals, great special effects, credible action, a welcome touch of international politics, and a pair of actors the camera plainly loves, even in space suits. And so did I. Clooney plays a sensitive macho with style, and -- notwithstanding the catty comments you'll read elsewhere on this review webpage -- Sandra Bullock deserved to win the Academy Award. She's beautiful, sure, but she can also act with a decent range of emotion.
So don't see "Gravity" expecting to see Shakespeare, or the Lunts, or Helen Hayes, or even the latest English biopic set in a countryside manor. Go for a good time.