NOT the great movie it's rating suggests

Rating: 1/10 (18 October 2013)

There's no clear spoilers in this review but I talk about some plot points in general.
I don't understand why the ratings have been so high for this movie. It's just okay. The visuals are great, but the rest is mediocre.
Sandra Bullock's character is very annoying and incompetent for most of the film. Like a woman that trips and falls when being chased, it's just an excuse to ratchet up the tension with a weak character instead of a tough situation.
The character's back-story seems contrived, just to introduce some character arc.
It's shows satellites and space stations within site of each other. Completely unrealistic.
This movie completely lost me when it had a Vertical Limit "any good climber would cut the rope" type scene. A completely contrived situation that defies the physics of space just to try to be dramatic. All it did was completely destroy any suspension of disbelief I was trying to maintain.
On IMDb Apollo 13 gets a 7.5 and this movie gets a 8.6!!!!! Really?! Apollo 13 was SO much better than this movie.
If you knew nothing about space travel and how matter reacts in space this movie may be fun, but there are such HUGE holes in the story and impossible things happening that I couldn't get over thinking how ridiculous it was.