First 10 minutes is phenomenal, can't say much about the rest

Rating: 6/10 (2 December 2018)

This movie opens with a continuously shot scene which is amazingly choreographed and extremely immersive. The clash of dialogue and gradually building music are very well made elements and by the time the debris hits, for the third time ever I actually have butterflies from movie tension. This scene is so well made and tense that if the rest of the movie had been as good, I probably would have said it was one of the best sci-fi movies to date.
However, the rest of the film plays out like your average Day After Tomorrow disaster film, mainly consisting of Sandra Bullock failing to grab onto things and getting unrealistically lucky the whole time. In some ways the story feels well written in the way that new complications keep arising, in others it just feels like the writers are pulling every single possible complication out of their heads to extend this to feature length.
There is also a scene where a character who died in the beginning comes back in a vision that Dr. Stone has. Not only is this uninventive, but because neither the audience nor Stone actually got attached to this character, it means that she is just hoping for something to save herself, which makes her really unlikable.
And a lot of the scenes attempt to heighten tension just by making Stone not be able to do something that should be easy. Heck, she nearly drowns right at the end just because she was being slow to get out. And somewhere or other, there are some scientific inaccuracies to complain about.
That said, this is still the best disaster movie ever made. That's not saying much, but it does better. So if you're a fan of the genre, watch this.