Big deception, nowhere near the level of District 9

Rating: 5/10 (5 December 2013)

I genuinely felt insulted after watching this cliché guided film with a running time of apparently interminable 109 minutes. Everything on Elysium was done in past films, and done much better. It looks like Blomkamp decided to mix up the hacker concept from The Matrix, the Wachowski classic Sci-Fi film, with some of the visuals and the 'fast cure' conception from the unconventional Sci-Fi film by François Truffaut 'Fahrenheit 451', and it has even a lot of digested subjects used in District 9 that are used again here in Elysium. The film was lazy made in the creation aspects, as you can see.
The character development is incredibly obscure; the film don't reveals nothing important or attractive about the life of the character, so the viewer barely knows who this zero personality and extremely apathetic protagonist is, you just know of course that he is going to lead something great and probably will need to sacrifice himself in order to save the earth. OK, i couldn't care less. Matt Damon does not help either, he brings the enthusiasm of a sloth to his role. Copley was a cartoon like villain, but cartoon is perhaps a definition that all the characters he play may receive. He is good playing the over the top guy, though.
Some parts does not even make sense. Sharlto character's letting the protagonist escape without any reasons is one of them. And Elysium should be a much better prepared place than it really was. I mean, five dudes almost blew up the entire thing.
And the worst part is that this film is totally predictable and cliché. You know exactly how it is going to end, because it has so many overused ideas that it seems impossible to NOT predict what is going to happen next. What happened with the creativity?!
Well, the cast overall was average or above average at best. Definitely nothing remarkable in that aspect. The cinematography is meh, nothing that can't be seen better made in like twenty films in this year alone.
I do not recommend this film. Go watch District 9 instead. 5.3/ 10.