Boss is going to be mad!

Rating: 6/10 (16 August 2013)

Rather than writing a long review I just want to drop some bullet points on ELYSIUM.
1. Jodie Foster plays uptight and unlikable well but that accent was awful.
2. Did anyone else notice how much Earth in Elysium resembled the future in IDIOCRACY? The bar codes on the wrists, the overcrowded hospital, people shuffling around in dusty slums, the tattoos.
3. Politically, of course citizenship for everybody is great, but it solves none of the problems that created the situation in the first place: overcrowding and disease...
4. I thought the movie's best touch was having Kruger's face blown off and then reconstructed.
5. I think that on a less conscious level ELYSIUM is a meditation on the body. Matt Damon's body does nothing but receive pain. He is stabbed, irradiated, beat up, surgically upgraded...I think the boilerplate politics are just a screen for Blomkamp's more primordial (and more interesting) body fantasies.
This movie is OK.