Alfonso Cuarón's highly anticipated space thriller stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. On her first space mission, medical engineer Ryan Stone (Bullock) is thrown into the depths of outer space when satellite debris strikes and destroys the mission's shuttle. She and veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (Clooney) are the lone survivors of the accident. With their oxygen supplies running low and thousands of miles between them and the next functioning space station, the astronauts must figure out a way to get back to Earth. The film, first of all, is a visual wonder. This is, hands-down, the best use of 3D in any film, and the cinematography is both terrifying and spectacular. Director and co-writer Cuarón accomplished an incredible feat: imagining and executing a film with a very difficult subject matter and making it suspenseful, thrilling, and engaging. Sandra Bullock must also be given a lot of credit for basically carrying the film, being the only person on camera for much of it. She will probably get an Oscar nomination just for that. The dialogue felt a little forced at times, but that was probably inevitable in a film without almost any. The film's primary purpose is to stun audiences with its visuals, and I usually gravitate (no pun intended) towards films that focus more on plot. However, the more I think about it, the more I realize how truly impressive this film is.
Should you see it: Yes
Grade: A
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