Could have been so much better

Rating: 6/10 (18 November 2014)

I expected this film to be really good when I first started watching it. The themes of overpopulation, a lack or resources and poor health care on Earth with the contrast of a utopia on Elysium was great. However, this wasn't utilised. Elysium was hardly shown beyond the inside parliament offices. Again, the politics of 'zero- tolerance policy' with the police on Earth was just forgotten about. The automated robots that gave you a chance to talk to real humans was an interesting concept. Now the plot was interesting, but it only really got started because of the accident with the radiation. And the leukaemia. Which brings another point. If health care was so simple on Elysium, surely it would be better on Earth. Could people not club together to buy a machine that makes you a better in a matter of seconds? Once the story got moving it interesting downloading the data from Elysium. But why take the child to Elysium? why care? Once they got there I felt as though they were just running down unknown corridors, shooting unknown people. It had all been done before and got boring. I expected the film to be far better after an interesting premise, but it didn't live up to my expectations.