Fell Short At The End Part

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2013)

Don't get me wrong. The movie was a decent scifi film. But I doubt it will become one of those "My Top 10 SciFi Movie" or the similar lists.
To begin this review, the shaky camera (which reminds me of Paul Greengrass) was sometimes too "shaky" for me to get what's going on in the scene. This is quite wrong since the movie is an action movie. Some 'action' scenes weren't shaky while the other ones are. Kinda inconsistent if you ask me.
Now for the story, the movie is definitely 'different' which is good. Mat Daemon's character simply wants to go to Elysium because he's dying and a machine in Elysium will save him. However, I just can't figure out why the people from Elysium wouldn't just bring these devices to earth. After all, I'm given the impression that this stuff is one of the major reason why a lot of people on earth wants to go to Elysium.
There were surprising twists (dunno if you can really call them that) which involves reviving a should-be-dead antagonist in the movie. I never saw that one coming. Then another antagonist dies so unexpectedly. The character's way of dying was just too undeserved; too quick, too easy, with no proper punishment.
As a whole, however, the movie delivers. The first three quarters of the movie really did get me waiting as to what's gonna happen next. But in the last part of the movie, starting when an antagonist dies or perhaps earlier, the movie just fell flat for me. I didn't even get emotionally attached to the Daemon's character which I believe is one of the goal of the director so maybe when the movie ends, we'll feel, you know, emotional to the character and leave us with all the 'wushy-wushy', I- wanna-cry-because-of-his-sacrifice thing (which by the way is cliché yet unexpected in the movie).
Then again, I'll repeat myself, the movie delivers. It was decent (and by decent, I mean severely watchable). Then again, the movie is highly forgettable thus its not gonna end, most probably, in a scifi lover's Top Movie list of 2013.
Thank you for reading.