Free Falling

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2014)

Visually, Gravity is a breathtaking film. Watching it in 3D on the big screen in the cinema, it is stunning.
Alfonso Cuaron and his cinematographer have to be commended for the visuals along with the special effects team. You actually think how this would be replicated on the small screen, where the visuals would not be done justice and you are then left with the story.
The story is of course two astronauts floating in space after an accident and they need to make it to the next space station.
Without any jet pack fuel they literally are falling towards earth. You just cannot beat gravity!
The actors do well in recreating the space environment. However they are pretty much dodging debris, trying to get from A to B and at one point pushing random buttons.
To flesh out Bullock's character who is a space novice the writers relied on old tropes to get the audience on her side for her emotional and physical journey.
Some people have questioned the physics behind the music heard and real astronauts have claimed that some of it is unrealistic.
This will not matter much to the general audience. However for one point of the film, even people without much insight of space travel would know there is an acclimatisation period if a ship lands back on Earth.