Why reason when there's plenty cgi?

Rating: 5/10 (13 October 2013)

First half of the movie I was amazed, thanks to the great effects, the details and so on. One thing I seriously don't understand though, why is it so often that Hollywood fail to come up with on par scripts? I don't mind dramatization, I mean you can not, and should not expect to project reality into a story with all its boring details. Fair enough. Yet we are casually presented a setting where Russians (them being Russians?) mess up in gigantic proportions (too much Vodka I presume?) and bring down both space stations, together with a good proportion of the satellite network, just like that. Stuff happens, right.
That part being entertaining at best, the debris field as if following the protagonist, reaching her exact whereabouts just at the critical moments, and wiping everything out except her person and the modules she is so innocently trying to board, was boring, and intellectually affronting. Not to mention the probability of something like that happening must be... Well, quite negligible. Stuff happens though, right? Yes, yes, I heard you.
Also the part she boards the Chinese station, they need to present us table tennis equipment floating around, just to remind us it's a Chinese station. I was surprised they missed adding a few chopsticks to the scenery.
So there goes my 5 points to the tremendous effort put into the visualization. The rest however was, sadly, far from convincing.