Gravity – 7

A feeling of weightlessness, enhanced by my 3-D glasses, set in with George and Sandra’s first roll in space and remained the identifyingly unique feature of this otherwise generally weightless survival story. Actually, the less said about the story itself, the better. Somehow, Sandra Bullock’s character changes from a somewhat incompetent space traveler who crashed the simulator in training every time and needs George Clooney’s calm voice to tell her which way is up (granted, a bit tricky in space), to a one-woman marvel who, on an upset stomach, calmly navigates Russian and Chinese space stations and singlehandedly manages a descent to Earth (I assume it is Earth, based on the movie’s title, not the landscape) without any help from Houston or prior experience. I was ready for, and would have preferred, a more ambiguous ending: let Sandra find her resolve, with the Clooney apparition’s help, and push the button in the re-entry capsule. Let the viewer decide whether she makes it, or not. “Ground control to Major Tom…”

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