terryneal-35802 Neill Bloomkamp's Elysium is a good science fiction film which has a lot of social commentary themes going on like his previous endeavor District 9. In this instance it is a look at the economic injustices that he decides to play out. The film is set on a space station orbiting Earth and our lead, played by Matt Damon lands there to save his own life. He realizes the difference between the rich who inhabit the ship and the not so well off and decides to fight the injustice. The film looks stunning and Bloomkamp's visual style can easily be distinguished. Matt Damon is adept in playing a mercenary and Jodie Foster is especially delicious playing against type.

miamijunge What can I say? It's the same Hollywood recipe for all movies. Right?They always put the same ingredients in absolutely all of these movies. To try to even list these ingredients over and over in my reviews is moot, so I am just gonna skip it this time.If you pay attention, you'll notice!!On a side note, it started out good, but as soon as we reached mid-point, every Hollywood cliche was fulfilled.

Evan Wessman (CinematicInceptions) After seeing this, I would hire Neil Blomkamp as a director, but not as a writer. He put a lot of pretty good work into building his world here, but in terms of structuring scenes, creating characters, and writing good dialogue, he failed pretty gloriously. I had actually gone into this movie with pretty high expectations, but after an hour I was considering stopping. Once I could see that the story was not in good hands, I lost interest. The characters were annoying by and large, particularly Kruger. Matt Damon brought a good performance as always, but I am disappointed that he chose to attach himself to a script this bad. But his talent was wasted along with that of all of the well-known actors here. Even worse, there was very inconsistent conflict between them. The whole subplot of Carlyle's power struggle against Delacourt probably should have been left out because it bogged the plot down and didn't need to be there. I found that the movie was better to watch when nobody was talking. There was even a scene where Max was debating with his friends about how to get to Elysium where one of his friends urges Max to go to Elysium, and then a few seconds later is telling him not to because it will never work.On top of that, the dystopian world that had been created felt like the most basic textbook dystopian society ever and was very forced. The way that the citizens of Elysium treated those on earth with disdain felt too extreme to be real and took me out of the movie whenever it came up. This mostly came up with Willam Fichtner's character John Carlyle. The revolution that ends up taking place at the end of the movie also didn't make that much sense. Yes, I understand that all of the people living on earth want those on Elysium to share their wealth, but the fashion in which they did this would probably just result in chaos instead of equality. I think it might have been better if the story had stuck more with Max helping Matilda and Frey get to Elysium. The good action choreography made it tolerable to watch, but I didn't find that it was of a quality that sufficiently accounts for the cult following around Neil Blomkamp. I will admit that he has a talent for explosive action and cool set designs, but it was not enough to save the extremely lacking story of this movie. The action is good enough that I would recommend this to people who like explosive and futuristic action set pieces. To anyone else, I would advise that you find something else to watch. Overall Rating: 4.6/10.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Elysium" (2013)This action film has been shot in Summer 2011. The screenplay is a mess of a technological over-side proportions. Director Neill Blomkamp found an overwhelming success with "District 9" (2009) with the U.S. domestic audience on alien invasion restraint in an South African township. Here the director gets a production budget boost from 30 to 115 Million Dollars through producers Bill Block and Simon Kinberg. The resulting footage has been devastating. A major cast with leading Hollywood actors Matt Damon as the hard-working factory employee Max and Jodie Foster as the corporation over-looking ice lady nemesis, do not meet in the storyline, to find some empathic character identifying moments of revelation, instead Writer/Director Neill Blomkamp writes the character of Kruger, portrayed by Sharlto Copley as megalomaniac with the primitive states in language and actions, to lead to a concluding metal gear fist fight between Max & Kruger, which sounds amazing, even has some daring camera motion by technically-competent to creative-talented cinematographer Trent Opaloch with otherwise hand-held directed wasting coverage. Two years in a doomed pit of post-production to an August 9th 2013 release after a two-times push back of release date; enriched, enhanced, tweaked, twisted digitally to make some emotional impact in a world everyone already knows between earners and spenders to finish with a fairly decent editorial by Julian Clarke & Lee Smith, who do not linger to long in any scene in order to reveal the exploitation of talent in characters of no means as Julio & Frey.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)