Just as good as Oblivion

Rating: 7/10 (1 September 2013)

I like to compare this movie with Oblivion. Oblivion has a lot of beautiful scenery, Elysium is very different. It's gritty, it's rough, it's brilliant. After Matt Damon is exposed to radiation, he has only five days to live. He needs to get to Elysium where every illness is curable. To get a ride up there he steals information and stores it in his mechanical suit. He is then hunted by assassins for the information. Matt Damon is a brilliant lead. I wasn't sure what accent Jodie Foster was. There is some gory imagery which made me cringe a little. This is truly more gritty than Oblivion but just as impressive. There are some truly brilliant fight scenes that I found really gripping and a bit shocking.