Bullock(s)

Rating: 1/10 (10 March 2014)

So, despite being in awe the first minutes into watching, during the loss-of-signal period, I was thinking wait a minute, Mission Control couldn't link to a transmitter in, let's say, Australia or use a relay satellite? (I admit that thought might not have crossed, and hence bothered, the less nerdy viewer's mind.) Oh well, for the sake of drama, the heroes need to figure a way out of this havoc on their own. So after the somewhat surprising but not unwelcomed riddance of the über-hero guy, she goes vessel-hopping from ISS to a Chinese space station picking up obscure radio signals rather than any mission control - just saying, the Chinese one could be in reach, right? Instead, the station blows up and she ends up in a Soyus spacecraft where she pushes the magic landing button that made 007's return to earth in Moonraker look like a NASA documentary.
Actually, Clooney did the smart thing. If I had blown up most of humankind's space fleet, I wouldn't be so keen to make it back to earth either.