Engrossing!!! Epic!!!

Rating: 9/10 (18 November 2013)

Nobody told that a movie can be so engrossing and yet have so little dialogues or characters. In time a time when directors are trying to burden movie goers with twisted, convoluted plots and zillions of characters that many people feel the need to go the movies with notebooks comes a game changer from Alfonso Cuaron.
The story starts with a space walk where Sandra Bullock in a professor who has developed a prototype which is being funded by NASA. She is accompanied by George Clooney on a space mission to check her prototype's functionality when catastrophe strikes. A sharpen storm of satellite debris destroys there shuttle and leaves them abandoned in space. The story them depicts the struggle she faces to get herself back to a pod and get herself back to Earth.
Words cannot express the performance of Sandra Bullock, the way she shows her emotions, her inner demons and her struggles as she fights alone thousands of miles above Earth is really a performance to watch. A special tribute should also be given to the camera work and all the special effects that more than make up for the lack of dialogues in this movie.
Overall, a game changer of a movie that was worth the wait for me. I really wanted to catch on 3D in a theater and abstained myself from renting this one earlier and the worth was totally worth it!!!!