Went in with high expectations and ended up disliking it

Rating: 4/10 (6 October 2013)

I've been looking forward to this film all year, and decided to see it in 3D for the effects. I consider Sandra Bullock to be a fine actress, but the thing that really got to me was her constant gasping for air - and running out her oxygen.
This is supposed to be a trained astronaut, folks. Basic training should have extensively covered what to do in an emergency, or she never should have been allowed into space!
What I found most unbelievable was she finally gets to 1% oxygen, and then somehow survives at that level for the next TEN MINUTES while moving around and talking. Sorry, but if you're breathing CO2 for that long, I expected her to need resuscitation when she finally made it inside.
The other thing that really got me was her WASTING fuel in the Russian escape vehicle while trying to free the deployed parachute. I was sitting there yelling in my mind, " Those things do NOT have unlimited fuel, lady!! "
*spoiler* Shortly after this, she actually gives up and attempts suicide, prompting George Clooney to --come back from the dead-- to kick her ass and get her moving again! At that point, I whispered to my friend, "I knew it!" (that he wasn't really there.) */spoiler*
Don't get me wrong, theatrically the result is very impressive from an effects standpoint, especially given the limited budget. But the overall experience would have benefited from more editing. After the first half of the film, I was no longer rooting for Stone because she was making one dumb-ass decision after another. *spoiler* And given the preceding events, there was NO WAY she should have survived! */spoiler* It was great to look at, but basically the film violated my suspension of disbelief one too many times.