Space survival with beautiful orbit shots. Not more.

Rating: 4/10 (28 March 2016)

First of all: I have been thinking about rating this as 1 star, cause I was seriously disappointed by a movie that won 7 Oscars and being nominated for best movie. Last time I felt that disappointed was when I watched Django Unchained. But to be fair, there are worse movies out there than Gravity, tho they usually have a smaller budget.
The plot itself is horrible. With barely any space training and some emotional problems due to the loss of her baby, Bullock is moving from one wrecked space craft to the next and the next and the next like she did it all her life. All the time either short on oxygen, with a fire in her back, some space debris trying to kill her or her being almost knocked out. Add the Clooney drama moments and that's it. It's a 1 person space survival with Bullock running from one catastrophe into the next and somehow surviving them. That together with zero gravity and beautiful shots of the planet is decent popcorn cinema that feels pretty repetitive after a while. Not more but not less either.
The movie is 91 minutes short and seriously, that's 45 minutes too long. They should have started at the point where Clooney dies his overly dramatized and unbelievable heroic death(which was pre announced already when they stated something about the record time in space). His dialogues are pretty corny anyway.
I can recommend this if you ever wanted to watch a computer animated earth from orbit and objects in zero gravity with monumental music for full 90 minutes. If you want to have any kind of character development, believable plot/characters(and without those the implied drama doesn't touch either), comedy spots(there are some lousy attempts in there) or decent action scenes: Hands off. The movie likely gets better if you switch off any audio and just watch. You won't miss anything important anyway.