Alfonso Cuaron directed this visually stunning film that stars Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone, who is on her first outer space mission aboard the space shuttle Explorer, along with veteran astronaut Mathew Kowalski(played by George Clooney) who get a massive shock when debris from a destroyed Russian missile causes a chain reaction in space, sending more debris hurtling towards them as they are both away from the shuttle, which is destroyed, putting them in a fight for survival to get back to Earth before their oxygen wears out, and more debris arrives... Marvelous F/X and direction really put the viewer in space like never before captured, even if the story and characters don't reach the same heights of inspiration.