Gravity (2013) Movie Review

GRAVITY (2013) MOVIE REVIEW

I think now is the time to officially start choosing Oscar contenders as Gravity may just be worthy of winning this year.

Gravity centres around two astronauts, Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) as these two are apart of a team sent into space to repair a satellite  However, things go in a different direction as an accident occurs which leaves the two drifting in the silence of space. Now on the brink of survival, these two must work together to get back to home on Earth. Judging by the story, the movie sounds like a survival movie in an unimaginable setting, and that's more or less what it is. This is because throughout the entire movie, Ryan and Matt are working together to find a ship that can take them home. However, the story for a movie like this is hard to do as it is space, so this opens the question of would it actually work like that? Thankfully though, scientists have actually said that this movie is a faithful representation of how physics would work in space, so at least we know we got that right. Overall, the story was flushed out very well and although at times bored me, it was meant to in a way as the entire movie is SPACE! How can you not be bored for some parts?

Still of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney

Since this is a survival movie, the acting must be the thing that carries this movie and determines it's final score. And to be completely honest, if Sandra Bullock doesn't win Best Actress for this performance, there WILL be controversy. Believe me, I'm serious as Sandra does a phenomenal job in this movie as she is more or less the driving force of this movie. When she is faced with a problem, it honestly feels like she is going to die if she does not overcome this. This statement could not be more true when she is faced with her oxygen being low. However, everytime she overcomes a problem, you just feel so happy for her and I will be completely honest, I was crying during one part of this movie because of her reaction to something terrible that occurs as she just looks torn as if she just watched her own mother and father be shot right in front of them. I would talk about the other actors in this movie, but there is literally only two other people (well...technically three) in this entire movie. These three men include George Clooney who plays the cocky, veteran astronaut very well, Phaldut Sharma who is only in the movie for like 5 minutes so he didn't show anything really and finally Ed Harris' voice as Mission Control who has the perfect voice to work at NASA, so props to him.

Still of Sandra Bullock

As for the special effects, they were simply breath taking. Seeing this film in 3-D actually helped the film's overall score as singing the wreckage of other satellites and ships drifting up close and in the distance is just a great thing to watch. Another aspect of the visuals that was done well was the look of Earth as as George Clooney says in the film, "Beautiful, isn't it?". His words could not be more true. When the visuals were combined with Sandra Bullock, I feel they created for some of the most intense and thrilling scenes in film as when she is struggling to stay attached to George Clooney, you actually feel like you're drifting with her into the dark void of space. Overall, the visuals were extremely good and really made the audience feel as if they were in space.

Still of George Clooney

Overall, Gravity could easily be considered worthy of an Oscar thanks to incredible acting from both George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. Though acting is not the only thing pushing this movie as the film holds perfect realism, fantastic visuals and a great sense of danger makes Gravity an intense, Oscar-worthy survival flick.

OVERALL: 8.8/10