Gravity (2013)
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Critics Consensus: Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is an eerie, tense sci-fi thriller that's masterfully directed and visually stunning.
Critics Consensus: Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is an eerie, tense sci-fi thriller that's masterfully directed and visually stunning.
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Gravity stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening … More- Rating:
- PG-13 (for intense perilous sequences, some disturbing images and brief strong language)
- Genre:
- Drama , Mystery & Suspense , Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Directed By:
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Written By:
- Alfonso Cuarón , Jonás Cuarón
- In Theaters:
- Oct 4, 2013 Wide
- On DVD:
- Feb 25, 2014
- US Box Office:
- $274.1M
Cast
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Sandra Bullock
as Dr. Ryan Stone -
George Clooney
as Matt Kowalski -
Ed Harris
as Mission Control Voic... -
Orto Ignatiussen
as Aningaaq Voice -
Phaldut Sharma
as Shariff Voice -
Amy Warren
as Explorer Captain Voi...
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Critic Reviews for Gravity
All Critics (305) | Top Critics (53) | Fresh (295) | Rotten (10) | DVD (3)
Believe the hype: Gravity is as jaw-droppingly spectacular as you've heard - magnificent from a technical perspective but also a marvel of controlled acting and precise tone.
Unfolding as a series of terrifying object lessons in Newtonian physics, the movie lends new meaning to the phrase "spatial geometry."
Gravity is not a film of ideas, like Kubrick's techno-mystical 2001, but it's an overwhelming physical experience -- a challenge to the senses that engages every kind of dread.
Nerve-racking, sentimental and thrilling, Gravity honors terra firma even as it reaches for the stars with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
Cuarón and his cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki, keep the audience in weightless suspension right along with the astronauts. For most of us, Gravity is the closest we will ever get to the real deal.
Gravity, a weightless ballet and a cold-sweat nightmare, intimates mystery and profundity, with that mixture of beauty and terror that the Romantics called the sublime.
You don't have to love sci-fi to love Gravity, you just have to love the power of cinema to provide a transcendent experience.
One of the greatest man-versus-nature movies in cinematic history.
$90,000,000, a hundred, whatever they spent: this is a taut thriller built for audiences but also one of the most expensive experimental movies ever made. It's a thrill ride, but a work by a visual artist at the extremes of his acuity.
The fact that the film touches on spiritual themes at all is worth noting, and makes this film just a little bit more than the thrill ride that all the ads have promised.
An escape from the past that is simultaneously a flight to no future.
One of the best science fiction movies in years.
This is a story about people floating through space, and Alfonso Cuarón's feature brilliantly contrives to make the viewer feel similarly untethered, to often thrilling effect. This is surely the closest cinema comes to three-dimensional virtual abseiling.
The single most stressful two hours you can have in a movie theatre - in the best possible way.
Surely there are Oscar nominations for all involved, and Gravity is set to be a classic.
What could easily have been a dull practice in CGI is crafted by Alfonso Cuaron in to a journey for survival and learning how to cherish life...
For all the complicated CG wizardry and ostensibly visionary gloss...[Gravity] is aesthetically and structurally regressive.
We've seen films set in outer space before, but nothing has ever felt this real.
A sleek, smooth, immersive, and rather overwhelming spectacle of economy, efficiency, and all-around proficiency.
One of the ten best films of 2013.
If Cuarón's long-gestating thriller is perhaps not quite the masterpiece we were hoping for, it is still a thrilling and visually striking work.
A marvel of performance and effect utilizing the man against his environment/survival motif to justify visual and technical elegance and brilliance.
You want to admire the technical achievement, except it never feels like a technical achievement. It just feels like you're there. And desperately want to leave.
This masterpiece perfectly blends the elements of a science fiction blockbuster- A-list stars and amazing special effects- with a powerful and subtle story.
Cuaron's knack for long takes amplifies the terror, where devastation approaches without a sound and that thump you hear could very well be your own pulse.
It's a technical marvel -- appropriately breathtaking in its evocation of space's vastness and the buffeting suffered by the two astronauts in their efforts to anchor themselves to something solid. But Cuaron also knows how suspense works.
Audience Reviews for Gravity
Funny old film Gravity. It made me feel dizzy and a little bit sick but in this one and only instance, that was a positive thing. I can find no fault with it, although as much as I love Sandra Bullock and I thought she and George Clooney were great, if I had made the film I would have cast completely different people. In fact I would have made quite a few changes and yet I consider it faultless. What the heck? Maybe the whole blockbuster/indie crossover confused me. In that sense it really is a new kind of film, yes the visuals are amazing, the intensity and drama are exhilarating, and yet the quiet moments are not what we have come to expect from a blockbuster but more from an indie. Alfonso Cuarón started as an indie director and has shown that he can do both and do them well. He has also sold me the concept of 3D filming, I was skeptical before but he has shown the way forward. Thrilling throughout, an amazing cinema experience and pretty much faultless.
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An exhilarating theatre experience, but upon reflection, it feels like the phenomenal second half of a truly epic 150 minute sci-fi drama. In the end, it leaves you out of breath, inspired, yet thinking: ''That was awesome, but imagine.......''
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A truly awesome, visual feast about two astronauts (George Clooney, Sandra Bullock), who are separated from their ship after a massive debris storm sends them spiraling into space, and how the two try to find a way back to not just the ship, but to earth as well. Although Clooney is given top billing from marketing reasons most likely, this movie is really Bullock's show, and she shines with limited dialogue and having to do a lot of acting with her facial movements. This film is not just a visual masterpiece, but it has a story to it as well, as well as two very likable characters, especially Bullock's who has a painful back story and is challenged to find the will to survive despite suffering a devastating tragedy. It has been too long since we last had an Alfonso Cuaron film ("Children of Men" is also a phenomenal accomplishment that should be seen, made in 2006), but all that waiting for his next film has resulted in a truly great picture. It is an exhausting film that successfully makes its viewer feel like they are the astronauts floating in space and grasping for life.
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I can see somehow this movie is quite overrated by the critics by giving 97% fresh ratings compared to the audiences who only gave 81%.. But for me, Alfonso Cuaron undoubtedly did a really great job, with my favorite ones come from his directing style and a f**king awesome cinematography that gave them both the Oscar.. Even though Sandra Bullock only acts behind the helmet, but her expression looks natural, so no doubt she receive another Oscar nominee, which is also good for her to proves she's not one time glory Oscar winner.. Too bad they waste such a talent from George Clooney in this movie.. Overall, it's a good movie with a great aspect from its production team, but to rate it as the best movie of the year I have to disagree with that..
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Gravity Quotes
- Matt Kowalski:
- I have a bad feeling about this mission.
- Matt Kowalski:
- Don't worry those pretty blue eyes of yours, Stone.
- Dr. Ryan Stone:
- My eyes are brown, Kowalski.
- Dr. Ryan Stone:
- Don't let go...
- Dr. Ryan Stone:
- I know, we are all gonna die...
- Dr. Ryan Stone:
- Please copy...
- Dr. Ryan Stone:
- All right, the way I see it, there's only two possible outcomes.
- Dr. Ryan Stone:
- Either I make it down there in one piece and I have one hell of a story to tell...or I burn up in the next ten minutes.
- Dr. Ryan Stone:
- Either way, whichever way...no harm, no foul!
- Dr. Ryan Stone:
- Because either way...it'll be on helluva ride.
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