Never liked Sandra Bullock until this ...

Rating: 8/10 (4 June 2014)

I was one of those people who just did not want to like Sandra Bullock in any movie. Well, in fairness to her she has turned this girl. I was really impressed by her performance. And to over shadow George Clooney is some achievement. The movie is great; the effects are wonderful and the script is succinct and clever. In terms of the plot; you will not care. You can see a lot of it coming but that is not really the point I believe. The effects are just so good that you are left in awe of the cinematography. The sense of isolation Bullock portrays is awesome. She really shines in this movie and I will approach some of her other movie with a less jaundiced opinion. The last scene where she climbs out of the mud is a brilliant graphical metaphor for how the first living creatures must have climbed out of the primordial soup. A must watch!