Its grim in the future and so is this film

Rating: 2/10 (12 September 2013)

Goodness, what a lazy and confused film this is. Starts with an OK idea, Elysium itself looks pretty good, (although a large number of reviews have already tackled the unaddressed issues on how to keep the atmosphere in etc etc), but it quickly degenerates into a plot light, shaky cam mess. Also, just to add to issues on Elysium, if they know that the unwashed on earth can launch spaceships that can reach them, are you seriously telling me they would have no way of shooting them down or repelling them apart from by firing missiles from Earth that miss the odd one now and again.
In retrospect, it is not short of ideas but they either ran out of budget (unlikely), or ran out of motivation (more likely) to put it together into something thought provoking and watchable.
Consequently this is the worst film I have seen for a long while, I honestly would not bother to watch it again if it popped up on TV on a slow Sunday night !