One of last year's greatest films

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 2014)

While I was watching Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, it reminded me of another movie which was Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995) because both movies had to do with astronauts in space (in which Apollo 13 was based on true events.)The movie stars Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone a medical engineer who teams up with an astronaut named Matt Kowalski (played by George Clooney) to survive a catastrophic event which was their shuttle getting destroyed while drifting in space. It is very strange that Bullock and Clooney are the only two cast members in this movie as well as the voice of Ed Harris as the mission control director back in Houston, one thing that this movie tries to teach us is that being stranded in space is much worse than it seems. Clooney and Bullock are nothing short of brilliant and I really do think that Sandra Bullock should have taken home an Oscar for her career defining work as well as giving her best performance since her Oscar winning turn in The Blind Side (2009).Cuaron's directorship for this movie is just perfect, and the score by Steven Price is what makes this movie even more suspenseful, but while we are watching this movie we don't even know if Clooney's or Bullock's character dies within the course of the movie.