Gravity

Directed By: Alfonso Cuarón

 

Written By:

Alfonso Cuarón

Jonás Cuarón

 

Starring:

Sandra Bullock

George Clooney

Ed Harris

 

The claustrophobic space thriller Gravity is Alfonso Cuarón’s long awaited directorial follow up to his 2006 film Children of Men

This movie is about a medical engineer and an astronaut who after a disaster are left to drift in space and try to find a way to survive

This movie is brilliantly written and masterfully directed. It’s filled with beautiful shots, such as one where Sandra Bullock’s character Ryan curls into the foetal position with space and the earth in the background

There are moments in the film where the view is switched from third person into first person, where we get to see from the characters eyes, and hear their frantic breathing as their oxygen slowly drops, this adds to the movies suspense and claustrophobic atmosphere

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney’s performances are both great

This film is both visually stunning and has fantastic special effects and CGI. I would definitely recommend this movie to any fan of Sci-Fi movies or thrillers as it is one of the best movies regarding space that has come out in a long time

 

10/10 – Cody

10/10 – Michael

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#4 on Cody’slist of favourite movies of 2013
#5 on Michael’s list of favourite movies of 2013

Limitless

Directed by: Neil Burger

 

Screenplay By: Leslie Dixon (Based On The Novel By: Alan Glynn)

 

Starring:

Bradley Cooper

Robert De Niro

Abbie Cornish

Anna Friel

A tablet a day and I was Limitless… – Eddie Morra

Limitless is Neil Burger’s 2011 thriller about the “smart drug”

An unsuccessful writer (Cooper) discovers an underground drug that allows you to access 100% of your brain’s capabilities

The film starts with an attention grabbing opening sequence and then puts on the brakes for a while so as to explain things

The film has a very interesting premise, “what could you do if you could access 100% of your brain”

It has a few slow moments but never stops because it has Bradley Cooper’s voice over narration to move things along. The script is hit and miss but I think it hits more than it misses

I think the movies is well edited and I liked the “drug effects” that appeared on screen when the drug was in use, also contrasting colours were used to nice effect, where colours were dull and greyish when the drug wasn’t used but when it was being used everything was crisp and bright

At some points in the movie when things weren’t going too well with the drug it felt like it was going to lean into the “drugs are bad” cache of movies, but it didn’t, it did its own thing.

Although the plot is thin, I think the movie on a technical level to be well made and it is certainly very entertaining to watch

7/10 – Cody

7/10 – Michael

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