Fantastic visuals

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2013)

This film has outstanding visual characteristics and watching it in 3D adds to the enjoyment. Unfortunately some of the events seem a little too artificial simply to add to the suspense. Traveling great distances in a space suit with a limited power source did not seem probable, some characteristics of a weightless environment were either ignored of forgotten. You will notice how Sandra Bullocks hair stays nicely in place while everything else floats around inside the space station. I am not sure about events outside in space where some events seemed to indicate gravity where there should be none. More on screen time for George Clooney would have been nice and a little less of Sandra Bullock breathing hard and making sounds like a scared little girl. Hopefully NASA trains their people a little better than she seemed to indicate (she had to read an instruction manual in the escape pod to figure out how it worked?)and hopefully they choose people with a little more maturity that don't ignore commands from a superior. Finally, the ending with her rising from the pond scantily dressed to a music score suitable for the second coming was a bit too much for me.