The film “Gravity” is, in short, a very simple one. It is about two astronauts, the charming Matt Kuwalski (George Clooney, “Ocean’s Eleven”) and the nervous, incapable Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”). Their mission, when viewers first see them, is to fix a satellite. Disaster then strikes when a Russian missile hits a nearby satellite and explodes. They are both forced to deal with the repercussions of the accident, and we see Bullock fight her hardest to make it back to planet Earth alive.

This film tries to be good. The idea itself is pretty interesting, as viewers witness the harrowing journey of one astronaut being forced to deal with a bad situation. It seems like the filmmakers wanted viewers to see exactly what being alone in space would do to a person and how it would affect them. However, the idea of a film and what viewers actually see are two completely different entities.
The acting itself is not bad. With Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, how could it be? That being said, just because the acting is good does not mean the characters will be interesting. And they are not. First, Bullock’s character simply has no business being in space. In almost every dangerous situation she must to deal with, she screws something up. At one point, she even tells the audience that she crashed a flight simulator for one of the spaceships every single time. Who lets someone that incapable go to space? She also just is not any fun to watch. We watch her hyperventilate and make awful decisions for an hour and a half. The only thing she does that is remotely interesting occurs when she begins to howl like a wolf when she is alone in one of the space-pods. The only reason that scene is interesting is because of comic relief. Viewers are not supposed to laugh, but it will be hard for them not to. George Clooney’s character is slightly more interesting and charming. His constant storytelling is a good alternative to Bullock’s whining, but that’s about it. As for plot, there really is not one. There is no climax. After the initial accident, the film is just a series of bad events that almost happen, but then don’t. The cinematography is alright; it is a space film, so naturally most of the background is computer-generated. The film does a good job of capturing the characters, and making viewers truly realize how immense space really is. The film is able to show the vastness of space, making viewers at least slightly scared for Stone and Kuwalski.

All this being said, the film just is not good. There are plenty of famous books about people being alone and lost, struggling with all they have to fight their way back to civilization and their families. However, none of these books have been made into films, or at least into good ones. The idea of a character being alone for an hour and a half is best suited for books, the exception being the film “Castaway” with Tom Hanks. It is hard to make a movie where there is little dialogue, and the character can really only float around in space for the whole film. Again, the concept of “Gravity” seems compelling, but you just can not make watching one person in space for an hour and a half that interesting. The dialogue is minimal, and even if it was not, the film would still get old. There are essentially only two characters, and one of them is incredibly boring. “Gravity” tries, and it fails. Viewers have much, much better things to do than see this movie and will be glad to save the $9.00 instead of wasting an hour and a half of their lives on the atrocity called “Gravity.”