Gravity Movie Review

Director Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity is a technical marvel in film making. Not since Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001 a Space Odyssey has a film triggered such commentary from critics about its realistic visuals.

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play astronauts performing maintenance on the Hubble telescope during a spacewalk when all of a sudden mission control reports that a Russian satellite has been blown up by a missile. As a result, shrapnel has been sent into orbit and is coming right at them “faster than a speeding bullet.”

After the shrapnel rips apart the Hubble telescope and their Challenger spaceship, Clooney and Bullock are left adrift in space fighting for survival with all communication to Mission Control lost.

Most of the film was created with CGI, yet when I watched this in IMAX it was hard to not believe that Sandra Bullock and George Clooney were actually floating around in space. The detailed replicas of the CGI-created earth, International Space Station, and the Soyuz pod are almost exact, with many actual astronauts coming out and praising the film for its attention to detail and accuracy.

Despite its brief 90 minute run time, you can be assured the film never misses a loop, a bend, or lacks any speed — setting up a thrilling ride.

Text by John Donnan.

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