Lame & unoriginal

Rating: 2/10 (15 November 2013)

This film is basically an unoriginal cliché set in space. Its tiring to watch. It is filled with over dramatized, unbelievable events and make it very hard to believe or immerse yourself. The drama is very forced and i found it not only annoying but an insult to my intelligence. Firstly, blaming the Russians for all the "bad" that goes on in the world is really tiresome and very over done. Bullock's character, Dr. Ryan Stone is a typical cliché, she is a scarred individual with a tear jerking past who we are supposed to relate to and sympathize with. Yawn!! George Clooney is your typical brave, funny, all American hero that we all wish we were and is truly heroic and selfless in death. ZZZZZZZ Then we are supposed to believe that Bullock's inept character, who is the weaker of the 2, somehow survives a series of incredible and impossible events by sheer dumb luck and the good'ol American spirit? Im not going to go into details about Bullock escaping the exploding space station and avoiding the millions of pieces of space debris or fumbling through Russian and Chinese space craft to magically re-enter earths orbit only to survive another near death experience to then crawl on a picturesque beach. The visuals are great, but thats about it. The film is a giant disappointment. The many positive reviews its received make me only believe that the human race is filled with morons who need to be sterilized.