Tuesday 15 April 2014

Gravity (2013) 7/10

Starring : Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Director : Alfonso Cuaron
Running Time : 91 mins

Medical engineer Dr Ryan Stone (Bullock) is on her first mission with NASA, installing some much needed medical equipment on a space station. When some space debris hits their shuttle, destroying it, she and retiring astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) find themselves stranded in space with only each other for comfort and little hope of rescue or survival.

This movie pretty much kicks off straight away with the action, giving little time to get to know the main characters. Thankfully we have 90 minutes of them floating around in space together to give us some idea of what kind of people they are. The effects are impressive and almost 100% CGI, but luckily this doesn’t detract too much from the story which is nail-biting stuff. This is a definite must for disaster movie fans.

You’ll like this if you liked : Moon




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