Great FX. Shame about the plot

Rating: 3/10 (24 December 2013)

If there was an award for the number of clichés in one movie, Elysium would be a hot contender. Wicked industrialists, oppressed poor, working class hero, sick kid, goodie defeats baddie in hand to hand combat, evil vanquished, virtue triumphant. The only things missing were the bomb with a big red clock counting down the seconds and the cyber criminals emptying bank accounts one dollar at a time.
It's depressing to see so much talent devoted to making such a pointless hashup of every third rate movie you have ever seen and wished you hadn't. It is incomprehensible that there are unemployed people in the USA and yet the studios hired the writers responsible for this weak and unconvincing plot. I could have done better. You could have done better. Anyone could.
I have flagged a spoiler alert but it's a formality. Every second of the plot is entirely predictable after the first 10 minutes.