These reviews seem to all agree on one thing, the visuals were great. Yes, Earth is very beautiful from space, we can stare at it all day I'm sure. But that's about it for the visuals. Earth, every once in awhile, beautifies the movie, over, and over. Other than that the visuals were above average but nothing to gawk at and be mesmerized by.

Sandra Bullock, who plays a character that I guess some may be interested in but I found to be weak and lucky. Not worthy of astronaut status. George Clooney plays a robot who enjoys country music. Clichéd hero indeed. No sense of urgency at all and is very weird. I guess there may be a few psychopaths who may react like that if they were ever up in space and have been found to be imminently doomed, but I doubt they would make it to be an astronaut and would likely be trying to commit some mass genocide instead. Both characters basically suck.

About 30 mins into the movie I pretty much give up on it and all hope for the remaining whatever minutes. Running at about 2% left of oxygen and they need to get to a luckily nearby unmanned space station, instead of saving their breathe they both proceed to have a half hour long conversation about nothing. About how beautiful the earth is. Or the sunrise is from space. As if the movie was made and those lines were made only to reinforce you graphic enthusiasts and would be able to call this the greatest space movie of all time, somehow.

The story is pretty ridiculous overall. I am all in favor of suspending understanding of reality in favor of entertainment, but from what I heard about this movie, I was looking for a realistic depiction of space travel, maybe like Apollo 13, which essentially blows this movie away. While I understand that may be my fault for expecting this, it still doesn't change the fact this movie was pretty stupid for the most part. Sorry I paid $20 for the VUDU download.