Matt Damon at his Worst

Rating: 5/10 (26 January 2014)

I could poke holes in the story all day long, as many other reviews have already done. I mean, why would Matt Damon walk into a deadly radiation chamber just to unjam the door? Surely they would have a master Off switch for safety. Or they could send in a robot to unjam the door. That scene alone was too phony. And how is Jodie Foster is able to shout extreme insults at her boss, the President? Wouldn't she be instantly fired? It's also unbelievable that everyone on Earth got to become Elysium citizens through a mere computer hack. You'd think the Elysians could simply undo that. And why would copying data from Matt's brain kill Matt? But the guy who got his head blown off with a grenade was able to grow a new head.
Some sci-fi stories are either too fake or too stupid to be made into movies. How did they ever get an $80M budget to make this film? Surely there are more worthy scripts than this floating around Hollywood. So let's see, the plot and the screenplay both sucked. On the acting side, Matt Damon tried hard but was not good enough to make up for the lame plot, so it was probably his worst performance ever. Jodie Foster was terrible. I'm surprised those two accepted the roles at all after reading the script.