Excellent cast & great graphics, but the script fails in every way

Rating: 1/10 (21 September 2013)

Having read mostly great reviews, professional & amateur, as well as having watched the trailer, I was very very enthusiastic about this movie.
Unfortunately a great cast, stunning computer graphics, and even an IMAX screen could not rescue this poor and patch worked story-line.
If you had never seen any major SCIFI or action adventure movie before seeing Elyseum, you might just be able to let your imagination get carried along in this movie. But, those of you that may have watched, Robo-cop, District 9 and Iron Man 2 will find your brain telling you that this all seems very familiar. So not only is the story a failure, it is also not very original.
The inconsistency in the imagination is hard to comprehend, one moment we are shown that we can build massively sophisticated habitable healthy environments in space, that can even generate their own gravity. While at the same time we are still stuck using qwerty keyboards (even today we have iPads, Android phones etc.)
The final scenes were clearly the most predictable and the worst, not even a shameless all action hero movie would have risked such "boiler plate" self-sacrifice.

Spoiler Alert - Even harder to swallow is that in the rush to "save humanity", and being chased by the "bad guys" who are breaking in through the door, the hero is given a keyboard and told to press the enter key so he himself can initiate his self-sacrifice. I thought that Hollywood stopped writing this kind of script for adults decades ago.

Given the ending you could have concluded that the movie was making the case for global-egalitarian healthcare.
My advice, invest your entertainment budget on something else.