I could have watched with the sound off and I would have missed nothing

Rating: 5/10 (11 May 2014)

Elysium is no more than the usual recycled dross coming out of Hollywood nowadays. Visually it looks fantastic, but that's where the compliments end, unfortunately.
I can honestly say that I could have watched it with the mute button on the whole time and I would have missed very little of what little story there was.
Some moments are ridiculous, especially when he gets the radiation poisoning and also that tediously predictable fight scene at the end where the villain talks and talks and talks before the hero inevitably gets the better of him just when the producers, I presume, expect us all to be on the edge of our seats and not drifting off to snooze land.
The dialogue has absolutely no imagination whatsoever. The years is 2150 or something yet they all talk exactly as they do today. At least invent a few new slang words or phrases that would show that the script wasn't put together in 5 minutes.
Poor, poor Hollywood. It still has the money, but the ideas have long dried up.