Elysium

Special effects are good, very much from the Avatar style but the script concept is nonsense and very old style 1980s thinking about "1984" and them and us ideas of technoculture. The scene where Damon talks to a avatar to complain is just not realistic in how tech would work or the overthrow of power by Foster is unoriginal to say the least. I was hoping for a more advanced perspective of technology, if they had been using tech advisors on the film it looks like it got lost in the rewrites and editing. No originalty. I would have expected a new idea or two of pervasive and invasive neural implants or some other kind of augmentated humans (Slan by A.E. Van Vogt has a nice idea on telepathy but has something in the ball park I was thinking of for example) The film seems to have impassive robot soldiers and an implassible cyber looking "suit" that Damon one man against the bad guys etc. While Im at it , the Elysium space world is a ripoff of the Halo ring world from xbox, I can go on. Note to investors please try a little harder on the originality of ideas in SciFi, the return on investmennt will be much greater, e,g, Blade runner, and even various popcorn like Riddick.

This is definitely Neill Blomkamp's weakest film to date, as the story isn't as gripping as his other films, but it's still a very action packed Sci-Fi that's interesting enough to continue watching. Again, Sharlto Copley is a very fun villain and keeps the fighting interesting, Matt Damon and Jodie Foster are also great, but quite dull. The flashbacks to their childhood was boring and typical of a love story, so that's not as fun either, but the film was good all in all.

A very believable portrayal of one possible human future: A world of slums and deprivation for the many, with an orbital "walled residence" for the tiny sliver of the population able to afford it. Raises issues without being overly preachy, providing some familiar scenes of the frustrations for any who have visited an emergency room without medical insurance, experienced wage slavery or had to deal with monolithic bureaucracy from the very bottom Great performances from Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley