![]() Their patch-up mission is going as planned until debris from a destroyed Russian satellite cripples the shuttle and kills everyone else. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), members of the Explorer space shuttle crew. Working with director of photography Emmanuel Lubezski and a crack FX team to create a you-are-there environment, Cuarón puts us in the company of rookie rocketeer Dr. Yet what it lacks in sociopolitical heft and laser-point characterizations it makes up for in sheer visual spectacle. To be frank, it's not even Cuarón's best picture, not with Y Tu Mamá También and Children of Men on his resume. To listen to some overzealous scribes tell it, when Gravity was initially released in theaters, writer-director Alfonso Cuarón's film was so much the "game-changing" masterpiece that it almost made 2001: A Space Odyssey look as feeble as Plan 9 from Outer Space by comparison. Sandra Bullock in Gravity (Photo: Warner)
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