Gravity movie review

| October 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

By Andy Scrivener

 

 

Gravity is a movie directed by Alfonso Cuaron staring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney playing astronauts Dr. Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski. They’re on the Explorer shuttle repairing the Hubble space telescope when a destroyed Russian satellite causes a chain reaction of debris and it completely messes up their space mission. Now the astronauts have to figure out how to get back to Earth when their shuttle is destroyed.

What’s very interesting about the film is that it’s basically just Sandra Bullock and George Clooney on screen. There are voices and there are other astronauts, but their faces are never shown on screen; it’s just Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, and the emptiness of space. The acting is amazing.  Sandra Bullock is absolutely terrified of being lost in space, and George Clooney knows she’s in the worst possible form of isolation but he knows she also must be calm to keep her oxygen level at a steady level so that way she won’t suffocate.

The film has a very high production value. Alfonso Cuaron started filming  in 2011 and the majority of the film is visually stunning CGI, from the space shuttle, to the robot arms, to the space debris. The film looks amazingly real. When the debris hits the shuttle, you can tell what is happening, it is not like other movies such as Transformers, where everything is in your face and overdone.

Gravity also has brief comic relief, a really good soundtrack, and scientific accuracy. Usually in space films you can hear explosions and guns firing in space, but in Gravity, you can’t hear a thing unless the sound is inside something (astronauts helmets, space shuttles, etc.) that can transmit sound. And when (SPOILERS) Dr. Ryan is inside the International Space Station, you can see a fire starting to ignite, but it floats up and separates into little pieces of fire due to the zero gravity. The only thing inaccurate about the film is when Dr. Ryan and Matt are repairing the Hubble telescope, they repair it at 260 miles above the surface of the Earth, when the Hubble telescope is usually 350 miles above the surface.

Overall, I thought Gravity was the best space film since Alien, the best movie of the year, possibly even the decade, and I proudly give it a 10/10. This is a great film to watch any time, any where, with any one. I’d recommend it to anyone.

 

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