I Know It's SciFi But For God's Sake How About Some Reality?

Rating: Null/10 (24 August 2013)

There are some things worth liking about this movie, most of which involve some very lovely and well done visions of an orbiting colony, and the flying ships of a future time which land and take off like rocket-fired helicopters. And some robots shaped somewhat like humans. That's about it.
The downside is the fakery of a person, Damon's character, exposed to a lethal dose of ionizing radiation who then is harnessed by means of surgical screws(!?!) to an exoskeleton composed of some hydraulic cylinders and although is expected to live no longer than five days does amazing acts of physical strength, is stabbed deeply in the abdomen with a long knife ---(which should have killed him), is thrown into walls at high speed, and who continues to have both stamina, strength, and full consciousness regardless how much trauma he endures.
MiGod. Really???? Are we expected to believe any of this?
At least in "K-19 The Widowmaker" when the men were subjected to radiation their skin fell off and they died horrible deaths within either hours or days-----which is the typical sequela of such exposure.
I so wanted to like this movie. But there were just too many other script insults to intelligence, I couldn't.
The idea that the lowlife gangleader to whom our hero had to appeal for help after receiving the lethal radiation lived in a downtrodden barrio but had a virtual COMSAT intelligence room with multiple screens and could access almost any other computerized device at will as the story unfolded even when running at breakneck speed on the space station....Please. Cut us some slack here.
That things happened with totally unbelievable coincidence really displayed a script desperately searching for some continuity...a good rewrite might have saved this. Probably Blomkamp ran out of time, or money, and was stuck with the faulty script and tried to cover it with some extra fight scenes. Which is really too bad. It could have been very good.
Most of the acting was credible. A few characters were overdone, especially Foster's...victims again of an immature script. Overall the movie could have been so much better had they found a way to introduce some medical verisimilitude ---Damon's face didn't even have contusions after being brutalized by the arch villain of the film---and some plot credibility.
I so wanted to like this film. I could not.