Pedestrian

Rating: 3/10 (8 November 2013)

The great virtue of Gravity is that I will be very unlikely to ever spend several hundred thousand dollars on a tourist space travel ticket, even if I had the money to burn, which I do not expect to have. The views may be out-of-this-world (although not in this movie!), but space travel is awkward at best. Cramped quarters, disoriented floating, most inhospitable and unforgiving environment just outside the door (hatch), unpleasant flight home. The only justification would be vanity: "Hey, look at me, I'm an astronaut!"
What else about the movie? The plot is lame, the acting ordinary, even the "views" are pedestrian. There is heroism, but that plot twist is a rehash of several space movies dating back to at least the 1950s.