Visually groundbreaking

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2014)

This film is much more ambitious than District 9 and I loved it! Neil Blomkamp revolutionises the sci-fi genre with his second film painting a gritty and chaotic vision of the future while parodying current world issues such as poverty, healthcare, overpopulation and mainly immigration.
The ambition of the art alone makes this a great science fiction. It challenges many modern artistic influences such as today's videogames while making a believable and realistic universe parallelling with our world today. The influence of great designers such as Syd Mead really shows in how much attention to detail there is in the vehicles, droids and architecture. Visually this film is up there among Blade Runner, Alien and The Matrix.
Matt Damon's character is mainly used as a tool for the action, being the hero he doesn't do much to reflect the essence villain apart from his gear. Sharlto Copley's performance was excellent, his character was menacing and completely badass. He's definitely among my favourite villains. I think Matt Damon deserved to have as much to offer in the film.
You can see that I'm very obsessed with the film, it's hard to focus on its flaws and there are big flaws such as the choppy writing, and disappointing performances from Jodie Foster and William Fitchtner. It's a great film but not as good as District 9 though I'd love to see more of this intelligent type of science fiction, perhaps a similar third film from Neil Blomkamp.