A glimmering tear, floating aimlessly, impacts the viewer with a Tsunami of emotion. How, specifically, does this one manage so much in just 90 minutes? Alfonso Cuaron's artisitic and poetic visuals enable us to view his reality through the eyes of a cinematic genius. Not GREAT-But surely Very Good! Truly great films are both original and work on multiple levels.
Now, some Years later, it has slipped to a 7.7 Rating. When this review was being written, Gravity was rated 8.5 on IMDb, with 184,000 Votes, placing it in the all-time film top 75, just behind The LION KING and just ahead of REQUIEM FOR a DREAM! OK. GRAVITY's director, Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men), has not only resuscitated, but also reinvented it, adding a signature spin all his own! Where is it written that a movie's commercial success is almost always inversely proportionate to its artistic, Intellectual and aesthetic quality? GRAVITY, most certainly, brings to mind the adage, "The exception proves the rule!". Long Live Alfonso Cuaron! Que Viva Alfonso Cuaron! In just a few hundred words, I will now try to do the film, its director and cast (Sandra Bullock & George Clooney), justice! "The Seventh Art" is a term that seems to have fallen into disuse during the past 20 or 30 Years.