Gravity
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 12:01:10 PM | (Age Not Specified)
20 minutes into "Gravity" -- which is incidentally around the time the first cut occurs; yes, the film opens with an exceptionally long take -- I figured this premise would make a fantastic short film. And, it did. At 20 minutes, I was so hooked that a fire could have broken out in the theater and I might not have noticed. It is so beautiful and so captivating that you find it hard to even blink. You want to stare into the vast abyss forever, and you want to watch the two leads, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, get to do the same.
Of course, they only get about ten minutes in before things start to go wrong. Dr. Ryan Stone (Bullock) is on her first trip into space, while Lt. Matt Kowals