Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
Certificate: 12
Genre: SciFi, Thriller
Awards: Best Director, Best cinematography, Best editing, Best original score, best sound editing, best sound mixing, best visual effects
Gravity has become one of the most respected and successful films of the year and it's pretty easy to see why. The story is great, the technological efforts are great and it leaves the audience on the edge of their seat the whole way through...Out in space, a group of astronauts are caught in a storm of debris from a destroyed Russian satellite. The only survivors are veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (Clooney) and newbie medical engineer Ryan Stone (Bullock). The two try to make it to a Russian satellite in order to get back home.
This is really Bullock's film here and, wisely, Cuaron never cuts away from her. We never see mission control back home panicking or anything like that. we see only what she sees and therefore experience only what she sees, making this a very eerie experience. Space looks amazing and the 3D actually brings something more into it, the first film since Avatar to do so.
There are a few gut punches in the film that, when added with the minimalistic music, creates a feeling of realism that makes the film even more tragic. Although it's a SciFi film, Gravity has more in common with survival films like Into The Wild than Star Trek and that really makes the film unique.
I am inclined to agree with the majority here as Gravity is definitely one of, if not the, best films of the year. If anything is worth seeing, this is.
*****Brilliant
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