A Very Underrated Movie With A Few Story Flaws

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2016)

Say what you want about Neil Blomkamp but you can't help but admire the passion he puts into his movies it's so great to see a writer and director making original Sci-Fi movies today and I really enjoyed Elysium and thought that it was extremely underrated. I loved the world that set up to feels real as other than some of the space travel aspects they keep thing plausible and explainable by science. The special effects in this movie are some of the best I've ever seen to the point where they feel so real and part of the natural environment. Neil Blomkamp has been controversial as a writer but you can't help but praise this mans skill behind the camera because he directs this movie beautifully. The performances are also terrific in this movie especially Matt Damon and Shartlo Copley the reason Matt Damon is so good in this movie is because he's very grounded in this movie he gives a very venerable and angry performance and because of this like the world Blomkamp created it feels real. But by far my favourite performance in this movie is what that I legitimately felt deserved an Academy Award nomination, Shartlo Copley he was so good here his characters is so vile and disgusting but you can't help but just want to see him back on screen and Copley plays his characters flaws by not holding anything back creating a terrifying and unpredictable performance. However while I do think Elysium is underrated I still have to admit it has some flaws for one Jodie Foster is pretty bad in this movie her performance just doesn't feel real like everything else and her ridiculous accent just didn't work and was extremely Annoying. Another issues had was with the Frey character she just didn't add anything to this movie and like Foster was very annoying. The set up for the world was far to brief and vague I would have like people to have seen a more detailed back story as it would have added to the plot and maybe made the conflict even better than it already was. Elysium gets way to much hate seeing as people are still crying out for original movies this was one of my favourite movies of 2013 and I really hope Blomkamp keeps making movies while taking on some of the criticisms from this movie and Chappie. 87%-A-