a bit disappointed

Rating: 7/10 (20 August 2013)

...after watching D9. Still gets a good rating since it is very enjoyable, nevertheless think lornloxor wrote a very precise review. Good action flic but storyline leaves you a bit cold. Additionally rather easy to avoid logical mistakes: why do they fire the rockets from earth, why can the rebels (whatever you call them) land so easily while before there were all these warning systems active shooting down the shuttles, why does the defense minister not want to live on? Since the people on Elysium are de facto immortal, what happens to the growing population. The kids will have kids again and then. Build a second Elysium a third...where to get the quality engineering and resources from?
Blomkamp loves to develop stories about conflicts in/between societies, this is also well-done here. At the end major question is: what now, nothing against an open ending but finally it is even not one, even it looks like: now that anybody is a Bürger of Elysium, everybody is allowed to go there...wait let us say you get 10 million per year up there, means all the then 10bn population of earth in 30 years. And then what for? For a two weeks holiday? Of course nobody wants to leave and everybody wants to go there. In the end Elysium will be destroyed, everybody will try to get his her buddy up there and that is it. Nobody wants to work in the factories and so production will collapse and in the end everybody will be worse off. I do not know if BK wanted to give it this socialist twist, if yes would be truly disappointing.