High expectation gone in vain...

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2013)

A sci-fi movie from the well-acclaimed director of District 9, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Surely, the scale of expectation was high above, and I myself counted Elysium as a strong contender this year. But, when it finally hit the theaters, sadly, everything gone in vain. Neill Blomkamp handled a subject that was repeated a lot of times before, but with a fresh environment, that is , in a distant future. What he planned to convey that whether we live in stone age, or a civilized one , the difference between rich and poor will remain till the end, and there will be some people who will risk their lives to overcome that difference.
Blomkamp presented Max De Costa as a common man, not as a freedom fighter. That was a good move, since Max doesn't had much obligations to follow. He fought for his survival, his own life, and we can accept that there are no super heroes in Elysium. Supporting casts like Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley are also presented as people who lives for their own cause. It shows how aloof will be the society in a crisis. Technically, Elysium has it's own standards, and by no means it is comparable to D9. Lots of us considered D9 as a benchmark, and unfortunately, they couldn't value the existence of Elysium because of that.
What went wrong with Elysium was that it never dealt with the actual problems of people which lives in a chaotic society. I mean, was they only needed medical assistance? The whole world is polluted, and why don't they demand any technology that will reduced the pollution, instead of the ticket to Elysium. Science is much advanced to filter out dead cells and recreate new ones, right. What about their food source, and many important stuffs like that. Elysium forgot to maintain a strong plot over the platform which was provided by the story. The rest was a consequence of that fault.
On the acting department, Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley done a convincing part as Max and Kruger. Alice Braga didn't had much to do, and Jodie Foster was an unnecessary addition to the cast. The action sequences and special effects are plausible.
As a final word, watch it without any hope of magic that we had in D9, and You may enjoy Elysium......