Cringe-worthy and overdone typical Hollywood Film

Rating: 5/10 (22 October 2013)

Suggested to me by a friend that this was a film of the year by critics and the likes I tried to be open-minded to it, however as soon as I heard the main roles were played by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney I thought why bother. But eventually was asked to go along to the cinemas and thought hey maybe Ill be surprised...I wasn't.
It was hard to take either of the main characters seriously and see them as who they are in this film when you know the roles they have played previously. The film would have done much better with lesser known Hollywood actors so you could actually become attached to them as a person not just another actor. The film tried too hard to make you feel attached to the characters too quickly with traumatic/real experiences told of their past, however with unbelievable acting I was no more attached to them even when they were on the verge of death or getting lost in space.
Typical one liners made the film tacky eg. 'Its not Rocket Science', 'Half of north America just lost their Facebook and 'I need Space'; I don't see why Hollywood films feel the need to put in lame jokes like this, maybe to distract us that the movie is actually quite mundane and has no plot? Either way I felt this ruined some of the film when it actually could have taken a serious turn.
Cutting to a few scenes after George Clooney finally disappears into the universe, Bullock is left all on her lonesome and with her own stupidity. Yes its Space and you are all alone but there seemed to be too many cases where Bullock was found incompetent of doing the basic of tasks regardless of her first mission in space.
Overdone symbolism such as Bullock spinning in front of the spacecraft window in fetal position and when she crawls out of the riverbed like a fish from evolution was cringe worthy; too much emphasis was on the meaning of life and hope, again overdone. The movie could have done with less music which distracted from what was actually going on; space is described as lonesome and isolated this could have been more obvious without the distraction of music and rather the silence of space.
As usual the typical Hollywood film ends on a high Bullock survives and realizes how lucky she is to be back on earth and feel the beauty of simple things like grains of sand through her fingertips, and what a wonderful feeling/atmosphere that mother earth is after being is such a 'vast place like space'.
After all this I can definitely appreciate the special effects of the film and it only being 90minutes long. Wish I could say more about this film but I left feeling as I expected; unaffected.