A good movie which could have been great

Rating: 8/10 (5 October 2017)

With only five days to live after being terminally irradiated, Max must find a quick way to Elysium, a luxurious space station where the rich enjoyed life without worries, in order to receive medical treatment. He agrees to do a job for a local hacker and so, armed with a powerful exoskeleton, he will do whatever he can to save his life and potentially of many others'.
It's a sad futuristic world in which everyone is capable of nearly anything to survive. There, Max must use his skills and experience to try and change the situation although he greatly suffers along the way. It looks well, it has a good baseline and some great actors. Unfortunately, due to his condition (in the movie), Matt Damon isn't able to make full use of his action acting, playing sick most of the time and therefore, reducing the awesomeness a bit. It is a bit tense, it creates a bit of suspense but nothing out of the ordinary being pretty linear and predictable. Although it could have had some change of events, it ultimately resorted to melee fighting, man to man which isn't bad, but not great either. Overall, it's a good action sci-fi movie which didn't disappoint but also didn't impress with anything.