Gravity's nonstop action thriller keeps you on the edge of your seats and guessing up until the end on how the movie ends (No Spoilers Here)

Rating: 9/10 (22 June 2016)

After the National Geographic's "Live In Space" broadcast the American astronaut revealed he watched the space thriller "Gravity" while whizzing around in space on the International Space Station.
While the astronauts made the comparison to that of passengers on a cruise ship watching the "Titanic," it has garnered renewed interest in the film, which at the time of the broadcast had recently came out on DVD, On-Demand and on iTunes two weeks prior.
Gravity, winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Director, is a fictional account of a disaster in space, with most of the physics of space and micro-gravity correctly portrayed.
Sandra Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer on her first Space Shuttle mission with only six months of training to install her own updates to the Hubble Space Telescope for her research.
George Clooney plays veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski, who is on his last space mission and is attempting to break the record for space walking using a prototype jetpack. And Ed Harris is the voice of mission control.
What seems to be the start of a routine spacewalk, disaster strikes 10 minutes into this 91 minute film, with 81 minutes of non-stop edge of your seat drama that keeps building until a the climax at the end allows you to breath again. But only in the last 30 seconds of the film.
Every time I watch this film, I swear the movie is only 60 minutes. That's how fast the action moves through the entire length.
The drama starts when Stone is working on the Hubble when the Russians shoot down one of their own, obsolete satellites with a land-based missile seven minutes into the film.
Without spoiling the film, the space shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski alone in the deafening silence of space alone and tethered to only each other as they fly into the darkness of space.
After loosing the last lifeline they have, communications to Mission Control, the drama heats up as Stone and Kowalski have lost any chance of rescue. Or have they?
Fear turns into panic as they gulp down oxygen like it was a cold drink on a scorching hot day, adding to the growing list of problems with no solutions in sight.
Stone and Kowalski realize that they must go deeper into the dark abyss of space to throw a Hail Mary that makes the one Doug Flutie threw in 1984 look like a routine shuttle pass!
Gravity, directed by Mexican born Alfonso Cuarón, who also produced, edited, and co- wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás Cuarón (George Clooney was uncredited as collaborating in writing the screenplay).
This is the first project that the father-son team worked on together as directors, but not their first movie project.
Gravity for the most part is accurate in its portrayal of space. However, the sound effects people couldn't leave well enough alone. They broke some of the laws of physics, such as when the added sound to scenes where objects collided in space. Remember, as the film's opening says, "there is no sound in space." You can hear some of the sounds while the music tries to cover it up.
Also, anyone who knows something about space will see that at times an action does not always have an opposite and equal reaction. As an amateur astronomer since 1973, I could pick this film apart. However, any of the small breaking of the laws of physics will not interfere with the non-stop thriller, making you feel good about having both feet on Earth.
However, some of the best commentary on the film came from American Astronaut Rick Mastracchio during the live broadcast from the ISS during the NatGeo broadcast.
Mastracchio said that while such a disaster like the one portrayed in "Gravity" may be possible, nothing like that has ever happened in space.
There have been near disasters in space while aboard the Space Shuttle and the ISS, excluding the Challenger and Columbia disasters.
For those who have yet to watch "Live In Space," there will be no spoilers given by the astronauts here either, other than that the incidents that did happen and discussed during the live broadcast could have been as equally deadly to the ISS as in "Gravity."
While the ISS is the most heavily fortified object in space, capable of withstanding strikes from small objects and micro-meteors, it is also protected by a virtual box that NORAD monitors. If an object enters this box, the first call goes to NASA, and the ISS has the capability to blast itself away from any danger. All I will say is that this call has been made to NASA on more than one occasion.
In addition to "Gravity," the father-son duo produced the 2004 hit movie "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts.
If you love space movies, "Gravity" provides much realism, with a backdrop taken from NASA archives, and a storyline that will keep you on edge and guessing.
It's dramatic impact is non-stop and the 91-minute film flies as fast as the ISS does through space.
This is a movie that should be in everyone's collection.