Although visually engaging and creatively directed, Gravity fails to live up to the hype generated by critics (possibly the same critics who slam the genuinely thought-provoking and emotionally powerful films that I tend to enjoy). It is a small-scale disaster/survival movie set in orbit, yet the space-travelling debris causing dilemmas for the main characters is not the disaster – no; the real catastrophe here is the star, Sandra Bullock, whose dialogue and questionable actions became so frustrating that not only did I wish her character would just drift off into infinite nothingness, but I spent the entire night after viewing this film in a state of rage and utter confusion as to how something with so much potential can drift off into an inescapable and non-redeeming black hole.