The setting is a visual marvel. “You can’t beat the view,” astronaut Matt Kowalski comments in regard to seeing Earth from space, but soon disaster strikes. It comes hard and fast. A girl Mission Specialist named Ryan, the only other main character, goes flying. She begins to drift away uncontrollably, into the darkness, as the level of suspense goes into full thrust.
It’s a nightmare scenario that should’ve served as the plot’s gist, but it takes an imaginative storyteller to keep an audience engaged from there, so we’re taken into more familiar cinematic territory and that aforementioned level of suspense starts to descend. In a sense, we’re following the wrong character, though Sandra Bullock (still) looks sexy in spandex.
my rating : 3 of 5
2013