Began intelligently, ended stupidly

Rating: 6/10 (26 August 2013)

Good story premise of an artificial planet, Elysium, where only the rich and otherwise privileged live in the mid-21th Century after earth has been ravaged by class warfare. The riff raff still suffer on Apocalyptic earth and live like criminals/animals. Effectively depicted was the ravaged look of a potentially human-destroyed earth(actually real life living conditions in today's District Federal in Mexico City...Ugggh). Matt Damon's character wants in the worst way to get up to Elysium to save his life. Of course, lots of obstacles to that come up. Duh.
The film broke down IMO when Damon's character got to Elysium and the explosions, bangs, gun play and other adventure film idiocy took over for the mostly intelligent beginning and the story resolved into a standard sci-fi adventure flick with way too many suspensions of logic and disbelief required to get through it. For one major flaw, where was the premium Elysium defense system when Damon's ship arrived to invade it? You would think the filthy rich would have a super-duper foolproof setup to foil any mongrel humans from getting in and soiling that fine nest. But, no. Thus, they got in. Dumb, but that's what allowed the downtrodden a very improbable win. Yea! for the downtrodden! IMO, an average sci-fi adventure flick overall, no more.