radio drama plastered over some amazing images

Rating: 5/10 (12 January 2014)

Movie-going is no chip thrills today, especially if you consider ticket prices. Therefore the average viewer, myself included, wants to get his money worth and see some extraordinary images, preferably in 3D. There were attempts to couple this with what would be considered a powerful story, for example The Tree of Life (2011) and Life of Pi (2012).
This time the producers pulled out a story that would resonate with the broadest audience possible and employed everyone's darlings Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. And this works for a while since the protagonists are not encountering zombies, dragons or other mythical creatures, but are astronauts fighting for their lives.
However, at a certain point you start questioning the probability, if not the physics of the things you see in Gravity. In order to add to realism sound is mostly unheard but their is music to highlight the emotions which, in turn, reminded me of radio dramas i've heard years ago.
Both Bullock and Clooney offer their standard performance. I only hope that real astronauts have more mental stability and better training than Bullock's character in the movie...