Lighthouse Critiques

GRAVITY

Gravity is a science fiction thriller that will keep you captive from beginning to end.  While George Clooney is the leading man in this story this is surely Sandra Bullocks movie.

She is Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer, on her very first space mission.  He is Matt Kowalski commander in charge of the flight.

It begins with them walking around outside of the space craft doing repairs when mission control warns them of high speed debris flying from a Russian satellite test causing much destruction.  Their space shuttle is damaged and Stone falls out of control away from the shuttle.

Kowalski, who is wearing a propelled device that can take him from one place to another, retrieves her and the two of them make it back to their space craft but find it damaged and not usable and the rest of the crew are dead.  They decide to try and make it to the International Space Station, which is not far away, before the debris starts falling again.

When they get there they see the crew evacuated in one of the modules and the one left behind was damaged and could not be used to return to earth.  They are still connected together but complications with tangled cords force him to cut loose from her and sacrifice himself so that she can be saved.  He tells her the damaged module can still be used to travel to a nearby Chinese space station that may have a module that she can use to return back to earth.

There's a lot going on, cables are all tangled, a fire breaks out, the fuel tanks are empty, it takes forever for her to figure out how to work the controls.  She considers suicide instead of waiting to die.  She imagines that she sees Kowalski, he gives her instructions on how to make it to the Chinese station.  This was not an easy task.  She manages to get into the capsule that will take her back to earth.   Her desire now is to get back to earth.

My journey with her was a long one, I was totally exhausted at the end of the movie.  As for the 3D 
I think it would have been just as effective without it. The cinematography was excellent.

This movie is not for everyone as for Sandra Bullock this might have been her best acting yet.