good ideas, poorly made

Rating: 6/10 (24 October 2014)

I came to this movie for two main reasons: I like dystopian/sci-fi movies and I loved District 9 so I had good expectations. I have to say, before all the rest, that I enjoyed this movie but the story is so banal I just knew what was going to happen after the radioactive contamination and surely I won't see it a second time.
There are many contradictory and incoherent parts, I'll list just some:
-With all Elysium high technology they can't defend themselves properly, it's just absurd. If one people is not there to look at the radar anyone can land without big deals. Houses are not protected too even a harmless person can break in... kinda strange in a world where the only problem is immigration.
-Why they have to launch missiles from Earth? And why there must be a human doing that?
-How can Elysium have an atmosphere? It's against any physics law and not explained in any way.
-The sabre virus should have killed Max (Matt Damon) on the spot, not after he passed the informations. That's so high tech, so advanced, so useless.

Delacourt (Jodie Foster) dies so badly, overexposing herself to risks, her character suggested she could have been smarter, but no.

But what's really disappointing about this movie is Matt Damon, or maybe the author used him to cover many holes in the plot. He's face and his character are just too dumb: you tell him one thing, whichever it is, he won't trust you, but say it a second time, there you have him, he will follow you! xD His mother, knowing he wasn't Einstein, should have taught him that: never trust a man the first time he talks!
I liked special effects, I liked the idea of Elysium, fights and weapons too were not bad, but that couldn't compensate for the lacks in the movie.
6/10 cause I laughed at Matt Damon.