The films sets with Dr. Ryan Stones, a Bio-medical engineer and also a Mission Specialist on her very first space mission, STS-157. The team also consist of an experienced astronaut Matt Kowalski who is at that time will be commanding his final expedition before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk to service the Hubble Space Telescope, Mission Control in Houston warns the team that there will be debris from a Russian missile strike on a defunct satellite has caused a chain reaction of destruction and instruct the team to abort mission. Disaster strike as communication with Mission Control were lost and the debris damages the space shuttle (Explorer) causing all members of the team killed leaving Matt and Dr. Ryan the only survivor.
Dr. Ryan (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) a somewhat solid performance
Dr. Ryan was briefly separated with Matt when momentum of the collision of the shuttle and debris push her away from Matt. But moments later Matt came to retrieved her as he was wearing a thruster pack. Tethered together, Matt suggested to make their way to Explorer but to only find out that the space shuttle was horribly damaged and the rest of the team were killed. With the experience of Matt, Matt then suggested to make their way to the International Space Station (ISS) which was not too far away from them to use a spacecraft (Soyuz) to return back to earth and stated that they have an estimated of 90 minutes before the debris field completes an orbit and threatens them again. As they reach ISS, they realised that its crew evacuated with one of the Soyuz modules and that the other's parachute was accidentally deployed, causing it to be all tied up with the space station unenabling them to return to Earth with it. However the Soyuz could be used to travel to a nearby Chinese space station (Tiangong) to retrieved another spacecraft to travel back to Earth. Disaster strikes again as Dr. Ryan runs out of oxygen while Matt's thruster pack runs out of maneuvering power. Dr. Ryan and Matt tries to grab hold of ISS when the came flying by but at the last moment Dr. Ryan's leg gold tangled up with the deployed parachute. While Dr. Ryan and Matt were still tethered together, Matt's momentum would carry both of them away from the ISS. Matt detaches himself from the tether so that Dr. Ryan could survive. When Dr. Ryan manages to enter the ISS, Dr. Ryan was forced to quickly make her way to the Soyuz as the space station was on fire.
Expect more spinning and stunning shots from the film
While the Soyuz was still tangled together along with the space station, Dr. Ryan has to spacewalk to release the cables but to just only succeeded as the debris completes the orbit and destroy the space station to pieces. While in the Soyuz, Dr. Ryan then has a another crisis to solve as Soyuz's thrusters runs out of fuel. Dr. Ryan runs out of ideas and has no will to live and decides to commit suicide by deactivating oxygen output from the spacecraft. She then begins to hallucinate that Matt suddenly appears outside and enter the spacecraft and tells her to use the it's landing rockets to travel to Tiangong. As motivation to live restores, Dr. Ryan restores the flow of oxygen and uses the rockets to make way to Tiangong. Unable to dock the Soyuz with Tiangong, Dr. Ryan has to ejects herself and intelligently uses the fire extinguisher as a makeshift thruster to travel to the Chinese Space Station. She quickly enters Shenzhou, a spacecraft capsule of Tiangong and travel back to earth as Tiangong starts to break up on the upper edge of the atmosphere, having been knocked from the orbit by the debris. The spacecraft then manages to land in a lake while Dr. Ryan swim to shore.
REVIEW
Matt Kowalski calming Dr. Ryan, not as easy as it looks
Gravity kind of remind of Life of Pi but Pi was accompanied by a tiger while Dr. Ryan was alone. I guess Gravity focuses on making a beautiful shots, a little scenery to look at while on space, which is quite breath taking, as the audience could see both sun rise, the street lights from Earth and the aurora lights. The view of Earth was produced in very detailedly while space shuttles and the way of communication were seemingly accurate. The film films in a way that the audience is really stranded in space alone. Especially when Dr. Ryan was hallucinating Matt entering Soyuz, which make me very happy to see a survivor and an highly experience astronaut to assist me, a noobie to return back to Earth. The film also gives a little glance of life on space and that it is not as fun and safe was we think it is, floating around with no worries and boundaries to take care of. The score of the film was good, enjoyed it a lot and it was one of the reasons that makes this film good as well. The negative side I kind of not liking is that it is a little too forceful to make it intense. For instances, Dr. Ryan encountering all sorts of problems everytime she reaches a space station or spacecraft. Could probably make the film a little longer to expand some emotional or story in this film including the debris come crashing in as well. Sandra Bullock was as usual fun, loving and entertaining but also keeping audience clenching the edge of the seat. George Clooney was also a fun character to have round to enlighten the mood up a little to both Dr. Ryan and the audience. Gravity was highly anticipated by a lot of critics and the film was usually covered up with great feedback and comment. But was still a little surprise to see so many audiences that watches this film in my hometown as I thought most would find it boring and dull. However I do know of a few negative feedback from acquaintance but manages to see one of them giving a two thumbs up.
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