Not the film of the decade

Rating: Null/10 (15 November 2013)

There has been a massive amount of hype about this movie from the critics so I made the effort to see it at the big screen in 3d.
It is a very good movie and I enjoyed it greatly. But I don't agree with the acclaim the critics have given it. Once you strip away the cgi this is a plain disaster movie like 'Tower Inferno', 'Airport' or 'the Poseidon Adventure'. But it only centres on two characters so you don't get the wide array of personalities or the fodder to fall foul of the environment.
Clooney and Bullock are great, but even in zero gravity Bullock is weighed down by the baggage of her previous movies. There wasn't really enough time for me to get to know the characters so I didn't really engage with them.
There is some rather hammy symbolism regarding rebirth and the characters are blessed and cursed luck wise, everything that can go wrong does, but often they manage to grab that fortuitous root sticking out the side of the cliff that saves them from falling.
Watching this film in 3d strengthened by existing distain for the format, and as there is no sound in space I didn't feel like the cinema's Dolby added anything and I would have been happy to wait for DVD.
In short, I greatly enjoyed it but fail to see what all the fuss is about.