I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from this movie, I hadn't heard a thing about it. But I thought generally Bullock produces solid acting, think "The Blind Side," where she single handedly carried the show. Here with George Clooney as support it's a can't miss situation. The story line is very basic, trapped in space, and "I wanna go home," not exactly rocket science story line, still it works. Clooney is the veteran style cowboy astronaut and Bullock is the tentative scientist apparently lured out to space to do a specialist job, when the mission goes wrong and they need to return to earth. The good stuff: excellent score, decent script, solid special effects and top notch acting. The script is basically all time deadline based which creates many suspenseful scenes with even a little comic relief thrown in. It's not - 2001 - but it's worth watching. Go watch it and enjoy, don't be turned off by the haters :-)