A colossal mess

Rating: 4/10 (2 December 2013)

Elysium is one of those movies that starts great and ends in disaster.
If you want a short review here it is:
Starts almost at 9/10, struggles to be in the 6/10 in the middle and ends in an awful 4/10.
Elysium tries very hard for us to like the characters, hate the villain and mostly, it do it's job in the first act, since we see how the people on earth suffer compared to Elysium.
Our main character displays a very good and humble predisposition to work and do the right thing for this "world"...
This all go downhill from the moment he suffers the accident and decides to go Rambo.
The problem with Elysium is that the characters are not likable at all past the first act, you begin to hate them and the director seems to confuse it's stuff since you begin to wonder what the heck they are trying to do all the time.
The villain is so bad that it becomes basically a jerk by the end. Jodie Foster is just a wasted talent on this movie and the rest of the cast, they feel like they don't know what to do or what are their intentions at all.
By the time the movie reaches it's climax it's a complete mess, it tries so hard to be an action flick and it fails, tries hard to give a compelling argument that it fails and in the end, it's just a mess.
If you like random movies with random characters, lots of violence for no reason and nice CGI, this one is for you.
If, on the contrary, like me, you like a nice thinking sci-fi movie with a good plot, this one is definitely not for you.
It's sad because it's started well, but it just don't know how to handle the world or it's characters at all and this is clearly the director's fault. It should had stayed with district 9 but this is what happens with someone talented starts to work for Hollywood.