Typical meaningless Hollywood

Rating: 3/10 (18 February 2014)

Warning! This movie is bad, really bad. Don't waste your money on it. It is typical nowadays for Hollywood to spend millions in CGI, costumes and enhanced detail only to blow it with the story. Well in this case the story is almost nonexistent, the characters are so shallow that they seem to be made of cardboard, even with some pitiful attempts to let some personal character background to seep onto the screen.
Consider the effort invested into showing realistic Soyuz, Shenzou and ISS backgrounds, only to see them destroyed not once, not twice, but three times from under -so to speak in space- the main character... always seconds after arrival and most of it during spacewalk. Consider braking in space with a fire extinguisher to meet with an orbit decaying space-station. Worth mentioning is that the astronaut using the fire extinguisher to brake had been propelled on trajectory by Soyuz landing retrorockets (the energy gradient comparison is outrageous). Consider another astronaut sacrificing himself, releasing a tether AFTER having stopped his fall.... and more.
What's wrong with not destroying things in a movie for a change? Mission to Mars? Destruction of the ship. Red planet? Destruction of the habitat and serious damage to the ship. Now Gravity? Savage destruction of two main habitats and a space shuttle. Is this what cinema is about nowadays? Destroy the marvels to make it interesting? As if ONE space shuttle destroyed was not emergency enough, and the survival of a reduced crew wasn't enough of an odyssey? No, better an orgy of destruction and the total failure to reach suspension of disbelief. This is a movie for physics challenged teenagers, not for sensible adults. Thank you again Hollywood for such a disaster.
I'm giving it a three only for the quality of the backgrounds. Everything else is pure manure.