In space, no one can hear you.......

Rating: 8/10 (16 November 2013)

Dr. Ryan Stone is a medical engineer on her first space mission, with astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring.
But on a routine spacewalk, debris strikes the shuttle that they are working on.
The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky alone, tethered to nothing but each other and drifting off into the void
First things first. The film is a fantasy movie, Science Fiction, an adventure movie, so if its scientifically inaccurate, so what, it really doesn't affect the overall effect of the movie, which is thrilling from beginning to end.
Whether or not the film working in 3D is another thing, but it's the best use of the medium I have ever seen, and had set a new benchmark for all 3D movies from here on.
Cuaron once again proves he is the master of long takes, and while he probably will never top the long take from Children Of Men, the opening of this comes pretty darn close, and is awe inspiring.
Other than that, it's basically Sandra Bullock coming to terms with life, loss, and death, and halfway through the movie, she becomes reborn, a new lease of life is given and it's pretty clear on screen. As soon as she enters the pod the first time, she literally goes into to foetal position after expelling the co2 from her body.
And George Clooney plays Buzz Lightyear, and that's not a bad thing.
So all in all, its a marvellous technical triumph, with classic B-movie plot, and narrative.
Not an Oscar winner, but a really entertaining ninety minutes..