Well, I finally got to see it last night.
Space Hardware porn: Check.
Predictable plot: Check. (Even without this discussion)
The most disappointing part was IMHO that ALL the problems that 'drove' the story were dodgy at best.
A single satellite strike that cascades into a giant cloud of debris in a few orbits. I don't think so.:thumbsdown:
An astronaut drifting away after being stationary for long enough to have a conversation. A pile of taural fecal matter. :thumbsdown: You can't even blame it on gravity gradient or rotation, because they are ignored during the whole movie. The entangled Soyuz stays perfectly stationary while Dr. Stone tries to uncouple the shute. After watching astronauts twanging from tethers since the opening shot, when it finally matters it magically stops twanging.
How exactly do you crash a Soyuz Sim during landing? There's no manual input required once the deorbit burn is done.
Not that the solutions were any better. They went from a circular 600 km orbit down to a reentering orbit in 3 orbits using an MMU and the Soyuz landing rockets. Even Jeb Kerman couldn't manage that. (although I sent him on a suborbital EVA where he got flung off, and he was below 40 km before I got him onboard the capsule again, but that's another story :lol
I hope that someone in the movie industry eventually figures out that space travel is extremely dangerous, and they really don't have to invent unrealistic problems to provide the drama. Until then I'll just go back to enjoying the hardware porn part.