One of the biggest rules in film is to create a meaningful and timeless script that isn't based on something that will be easily outdated. This is meant includes the visuals as well, so that the film you make withstands the test of time. Besides it's gorgeous (for its time) graphics, the film has really no substance and a heavy lack in research.

First off, the film focuses mostly on its achievements in CG, which is impressive yes (which is why I give it +3 stars), however it will no doubt look fake to future audiences (as it already does to most visual effects editors nowadays). Think about the "Neo vs 100 Agent Smiths" from The Matrix Reloaded (2003) or really any scene. Looked good at the time, but looks fake now (really any CG from the film). Luckily it was the story that carried that film, not its graphics. There is nothing from Gravity that makes me want to ever rewatch it again (even though I did my duty as a reviewer and watched it twice).

Second, it's attention to detail might help engage the viewer, but the unrealistic physics (how characters interact and the particles that hit the ISS), seemingly unexperienced astronauts and their lack in protocol, and their lack of an actual purpose for being outside of the ISS... Just ruins it.

Finally, all of it together is kind of a slap in the face to real astronauts and gives a bad/false viewpoint of how astronauts would handle situations, makes them look unprofessional, and makes Sandra Bullock look like a fool instead of having someone powerful and experienced like the real life Peggy Whitson kicking ass and taking names. Instead we get to watch Sandra float around helplessly and cowardly for nearly the entire runtime of the film.

I am starting to see a trend in Bullock's recent movies... Long winded, pretentious story, with an unrelatable character, and it ends anticlimactically. Some might think my review harsh, but as a filmmaker it shames me to know writer/directors get big budgets and huge name actors just to create a film that lacks in research, has no investment in its story, and doesn't really care about anything besides its CG appeal.