Boring?

Rating: 6/10 (9 December 2013)

Well, I know a lot of people liked this movie and I don't mind, I just hoped I'd like it as well..
The visuals are great. What I liked most about it was that it felt very real, there are no super technologized fiction-machines so you get to fully enjoy the "out in the space" experience and in this it excels. Don't think any other movie provides same level of atmospheric mood that is gently contained within "believable" limits.
However, with all that appreciated, I was constantly bugged by the "simplicity" of where things were going, and how it all turned out.
First, the movie starts with three astronauts fixing a machine part in the space - two man, one woman. The woman is the one fixing stuff, one of the guys is the "commander". They receive an alarm to abort, but the woman keeps fixing it with "just a moment" cliché. Then things go wrong. So, if up until this I was genuinely enjoying the realness of it all, now I am watching somebody who was actually allowed into outer space to fix a machine "postponing orders". Okey, she is trained for just 6 months, but following orders should take about a minute to memorize.
Skipping it. At some point the movie starts to shift from "this is about space" to "this is about me". And the rest of it feels more like watching a person's journey to self-development more than anything else. The other characters are thrown off very easily. The spiritual aspect of the movie is OK, I mean facing your own demons, overcoming something and learning to move on is indeed important but not in any way original, new or brilliant for a movie. Even if it happens in the outer space.
So to wrap it up, I'm not sure how I felt about the change in the movie. I know I was supposed to care for the main character, but I was more annoyed at her for putting everyone's lives at risk. I just didn't find anything in particular amazing about the movie. Atmospheric movies require some patience in general, but with the plot very predictable the only thing I was left with were the visuals, and for that 6/10.