Foster's performance makes it worth seeing...

Rating: 5/10 (19 September 2013)

Jodie Foster was absolutely RIVETING in this. About 180 degrees away from her performance in Silence of the Lambs. In "Silence", she had a certain vulnerability, but there's not a trace of that in this. After her first scene, I spent the rest of the movie just waiting for her to come back on screen. She effectively steals the movie from Matt Damon completely. The cinematography in the fight scenes is so jumpy, most of the time you can't tell which combatant you're watching. Very distracting and totally frustrating. Can't imagine what they were thinking....
The scenes on Elysium are reminiscent of Beverly Hills (which, I'm sure, was intentional) and the scenes on Earth were right out of District 9.
The points made by other reviewers about the technical sci-fi aspects are generally well-taken, but none of that bothered me. We thought we were seeing it in 3-D, only to find out (after we had paid $18 per ticket at the SENIOR rate!) that it was only filmed in IMAX, not 3-D. Very disappointing. Since when does a movie NOT in 3-D cost $18 a ticket?!?