Could of been a classic....................but it's not.

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2014)

OK so this movie should quite rightly sweep all the awards in the special effects and cinematography categories in the forthcoming awards season. However, it falls flat on its face when it comes to plausibility, but it needn't have. They make a point of letting us know that Sandra Bullock's character is not am astronaut as such and is up there to repair a satellite. She even admits to crashing the shuttle every time whilst doing some brief training in a flight simulator back on earth. Without wishing to give too much away Bullock has to board not one but two foreign space vehicles to get home, one Russian one Chinese. Considering she was incompetent in piloting a more familiar vehicle in a simulator we are expected to believe that she is capable of doing this under stress. Adding insult to injury she achieved all of this without any help from NASA people on earth due to the communications being down. At one point she actually says 'Eeny meeny miny moe' to select what button to press in a foreign space craft. When she splashes down on earth it has conveniently landed in a small lake allowing her to get to shore relatively easily.
If Bullock had been a highly qualified shuttle pilot this would have been more plausible but I guess plausibility is not good box office.
Chewing gum for the brain.