An undercooked waste of talent

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2014)

Clooney and Bullock are fantastic, and the cinematography as well as sound editing are spellbinding. That's it. The script is rife with clichés ("half the world is about to lose their Facebook" "sunny with a chance of space debris" as well as random dumb attempts at humour - a Ping Pong paddle floating in the Chinese space station - just come off as subtle racism and idiotic). If Apollo 13 could be completely accurate then Gravity has no excuse... Explaining that nothing survives in space, there's no air, etc is insulting, random bouts of gravity (Clooney is pulled into the void of space by absolutely nothing) and use of the Canada arm without referencing it's makers. This is Apollo Thirteen if it was written by M. Night Shymalan and directed by Michael Bay. Completely illogical, inaccurate, slow and unrealistic. Cuaron is so much better than this. Considering how beautiful this looks, it's a damn shame they didn't put more effort into the script and the more intricate details.
Go rent "2001: A Space Odyssey" it's still wondrous and still holds up, and it's worlds better than this waste of talent.