Great visuals, incredibly weak story.

Rating: 7/10 (2 April 2014)

I liked this movie, it's visuals alone make it a treat to watch. All these Physics Phd. wannabes (Look Ma, I watched Apollo 13! I know everything about physics) giving this film 1/10 for being "unrealistic" should just stop going to the movies altogether. Are they just angry because, admittedly, Gravity got too high of a review? Probably. No movie is without it mistakes, and unless you focus on them too heavily in this film they don't detract from it for the most part. The Visuals alone are worth an 8, and the film does an amazing job in letting you feel the emptiness and the vastness of space , sadly, story and character development is basically non existent.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
The plot is basically this; Sandra Bullock goes through a lot of crap and goes home, with your inevitable self sacrificing George Clooney moment in there. Why they picked Clooney and not any other actor is beyond me. He serves no purpose in this film. I was surprised he didn't fly around while drinking a cup of Nespresso. I guess he's just a handsome old mother f*cker. She makes it to the Russian space station, the debris returns to do some major damage ( mainly to everything but plot convenient things), She has a really weird moment ( not because you can't start hallucinating from oxygen starvation, it just didn't fit in the film, at all) where she tries to kill herself by turning off the oxygen, when she gets new hope from a hallucination of George Clooney(What else). She eventually makes it to the Chinese space station, which is re-entering the atmosphere, and she boards it using a fire extinguisher she picked up on the Russian space station, which basically makes the fire extinguisher the best character in this film, or at least the most useful. She lands in a lake, surrounded by lush greens, a pretty amazing sight to behold after fearing for her life in outer space for the duration of the movie.
The totally crap stuff:
There were some incredibly forced "Emotional" scenes, in the form of extremely forced and pointless symbolism, where she takes a fetal position to symbolize rebirth apparently. What the hell film. About as emotional as taking a crap basically. There is also this one scene where she gets in contact with a random guy on the radio, and starts making dog sounds in response to his dogs barking in the background. I don't know why they put things like that in movies, but please don't. They add nothing.
Tl;d.r Summary Looks great, is liberal with its use of physics ( or there would be no movie), has no character development, Sandra Bullock does clumsy stuff and lives to see another day. The story really sucks, the characters are cardboard. I know I said the visuals deserved an 8, but it can't be all style over substance, so I'll detract 1 point. It's a good effort, and a really fun and action packed ride, with some extremely painful and questionable moments in there. 7/10