What a load of old *&£$@! ass!

Rating: 1/10 (10 December 2013)

What a load of codswhallop. I waited for months to see this movie and was swept along by all of the rave reviews. 10 minutes in and I had already counted more preposterous flaws and scientific absurdities than I was any longer able to keep track of. The acting is wooden, one dimensional and utterly juvenile. Bullock is an emotional and physical wreck almost from the first instant, she is technically inept, sullen and devoid of professionalism, or any very redeeming qualities whatsoever. She is nothing at all that you would expect of an astronaut. She doesn't so much just not have the right stuff, rather she appears to have no "stuff" whatsoever. In fact one could say her performance was such a 'howler' so to speak, that there are junctures in the movie where it becomes utterly comedic. To make things worse strong comparisons can be drawn between Clooney's character and Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear, the only difference in this case being that Buzz produces a much more convincing, likable and 'less plastic' performance than Clooney. If you like big ass old CGI induced explosions, vacuous performances and sci-fi movies that are utterly devoid of any of the "sci" component at all, then this is undoubtedly the movie for you. In space it seems, no one can see you create drivel.
The sad thing is that with the utterly inexplicable high reviews and rave ratings this movie has received, Hollywood will only continue to pump out more dross like this and in so doing will only continue to contribute to the dumbing down of science among the general public overall.
Basically if you like bad comic books, never progressed beyond junior level science (and did pretty badly in this), like huge pointless CGI explosions, enjoy 2D, juvenile, uninspirational characters, backed up by clueless, uninspirational acting and juvenile one dimensional dialogue (even though they use 3D special effects to no meaningful purpose, beyond a pointless visual spectacle for the spectacularly uniformed ), then this is exactly the movie for you! For those with even a modicum of scientific background, intelligence and taste, I suggest you do a search on Google for "all the bad science in Gravity the Movie".
I used to trust IMDb ratings. But that's twice in a row now I have duped into watching movies with off the scale IMDb ratings (the other being Prisoners), where plot-line, acting and everything about the movie was so abysmally bad, it almost beggared belief.
There must just be an awful lot of non-scientists out there. Cluelessness abounds ...