This was An interesting SCI-FI Film.

Rating: 7/10 (2 February 2014)

I actually liked this film regardless of what some people said about it. I've seen the film two times now and after seeing it a second time i felt like reviewing it. This film has good visuals and good special effects. Even if some people didn't like the film there is one thing that can't be denied, Elysium is a very well made film and the director put allot of effort into making it. Neil BlomKamp seems like a nice guy and you can tell he's a very visual director he Invisions how he want's his films to look and then he works as hard as he can to make the film that way.
Now is this film as good as district 9? No its Not but i still thought Elysium was a good film. I thought Elysium had some cool Action Scenes and i thought Matt Damon was good in his role as Max and Jodie Foster was okay as one of the bad guys. I also thought Sharlto Copley was a good villain. I thought he was quite creepy and sinister at times and he's actually very good at playing a bad guy and you could tell he had fun playing a bad guy. The films story is about the rich and poor,the year is 2154 and the poor people live on earth and the rich live on a space station called Elysium and the people from earth need tickets in order to get up there. the world of Elysium is a beautiful luxurious lifestyle that the citizens of earth keep trying to get into.
Now i can understand why some people may find this Story shallow and get offended by it but what people need to bare in mind is that this is a (science fiction) film and if your not a fan of science fiction you shouldn't watch the movie because it probably wont be your cup of tea. Now its true that some parts of the story were shallow but there were other parts that were not.there were actually a few scenes on earth between Matt and Alice Braga that i thought were touching.There were also scenes between Matt and Frey's Daughter that were nice and emotional.some people say this film has no heart but i Disagree i thought the film had some heart in certain places and the lack of (heart) that people speak off is mainly from the rich people of Elysium. I agree you don't care about any of the rich people and there is also a lack of motivation as to why everyone can't live on Elysium. the film lacked in some Areas but it was good in others. The film did have some problems i can't deny that but i thought Matt Damon's good performance made up for it along with the cool Action scenes between Matt and Sharlto.
Matt's Character gets Sick and he'll die in five days unless he gets to Elysium because Elysium owns machines that can cure anyone and save lives, So Matt needs to get to Elysium to save his life and later in the film he tries to save everyone else too. The story of the movie isn't the greatest but i thought the director had some interesting ideas for his movie and i liked some of them.I thought the story was Okay. The movie also had a slow start which was a bit of a problem for me but after a while the film picked up a bit and things started to get more interesting when we meet the bad guy Kruger played by Sharlto Copley. I liked Sharlto as a bad guy,he plays an evil creepy villain well and you buy him in the role.
I liked the scenes on earth with the spaceships i thought they were exciting,the bits with Sharlto and his men coming after Matt and his men.the gun fight between the men was cool and quite exciting and Matt gets into a small fight with Sharlto. i also liked the gadgets that all the bad guys were using. they had all these weapons that did different things.Kruger had these explosive things that blew people up and he also had a cool Shield that protected him from bullets,it was like a forcefield that could block anything and i found that quite Amusing. Matt had some cool Badass moments in the film like when he beats up two of the bad guys.I thought some good fighting moves were used during the fights and it was entertaining to watch.
The only memorable bad guys in the film were Sharlto Copley and Jodie Foster i thought the others were all forgettable Lame bad guys. Sharlto was a lot of fun to watch in this film especially at the end of the film when him and Matt have one final Fight.Sharlto was entertaining to watch but i have to admit he did go WAY OVER THE TOP at the end of the film and i know some people did Not like that and i can't really blame them because he was extreme,however for some reason i actually LIKED that he was over the top and psycho.i thought it was quite funny actually,and at the end of the day his performance entertained me.So what if he was Shooting everything and yelling? i thought it was Fun to watch!. I liked the ending fight i thought it was intense! however the fight could have been better if there hadn't been any shaky camera,that was a small problem i had but Luckily that didn't happen all the time. I also liked that the director tried to give the movie an emotional core but at the same time still made it Fun and gave us some cool fight scenes to watch. All in all i thought Elysium was a cool Film and despite its flaws i still Liked it.