How did they get Matt Damon and Jodie Foster to do this film?

Rating: 5/10 (11 January 2014)

I think the director, Neill Blomkamp, must have blackmailed them into it. Or maybe he held their dogs hostage? Because, if they read the script, they had to have known that all the special-effects in the world wouldn't save it.
I LOVE sci-fi. But I hated this film. In fact, I'm angry that this film was released. Just as we've finally started getting some good sci-fi movies produced, this thing comes along. And presto, sci-fi gets a bad reputation, once again.
I'm having trouble deciding which was worse; the plot or the camera work.
Just kidding. It's the plot! The plot is one dimensional characters we don't care about, fighting a war we don't care about. In fact, more than once during the movie, I was hoping the bad guys would just kill Damon's character. That would put us BOTH out of our misery.
The camera work and editing isn't much better, and hits a low in the fight scenes. Watching the fight scenes is like trying to watch vegetables being chopped in a food processor. Jump cut, jump cut, jump cut. Who's winning? Damon? No, the zucchini.
I won't even try to cover all the failings of the "science" part of this sci-fi. There's no way to chronicle the errors and inconsistencies, and stay within the 1,000 word limit.
But here's a tip for future sci-fi directors: If you use a 1950's style circular space station, please SPIN it! At least a little bit. Because that's why space stations are circular, so they can spin to generate artificial gravity.