Approaching the Unknown vs Gravity

Gravity has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 5.3/10 for Approaching the Unknown). Approaching the Unknown is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 31m. Gravity is the older of the two (2013 against 2016). Both are drama, science fiction, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Approaching the Unknown posterApproaching the Unknown2016 VS Gravity posterGravity2013
Approaching the UnknownGravity
Audience score★ 5.3/10★ 7.2/10
Year20162013
Length1h 30m1h 31m
GenresDrama, Science Fiction, ThrillerDrama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Country––
DirectorMark Elijah RosenbergAlfonso Cuarón
Main castSanaa Lathan, Mark Strong, Luke Wilson, Charles Baker, Anders Danielsen LieEd Harris, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Orto Ignatiussen, Phaldut Sharma

Synopsis

Approaching the Unknown

Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.

Gravity

Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer, is on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any…

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