Gore, The Space station and all the accents you can get!

Rating: 5/10 (7 September 2013)

Ciaran: Elysium, spaceships, gore and realistic settings. The movie started out like many other films based around space, although how they explained the back story i feel could have been done not in text but with ambient vocals. Elysium also stood out with good casting, realistic violence and stunning visual effects, although it had its flaws like the excessive violence and the pace of the movie and most of all pointless plot holes and unnecessary characters, the movie could have been mastered by keeping the slow pace and dramatic sideline stories and this would have kept the doors open for the creators to film a sequel, but this wasn't done. Instead we have mixed movie with escalates from slow to awfully quick within minutes. Overall the movie had gore galore and a rushed storyline. My Rating: 6/10
Jacob's Review: To compare this movie to District 9 is like comparing Indiana Jones to Star Wars. One may be better than the other but they are completely different movies. While District 9 was an intelligent movie with perfectly executed social commentary, Elysium is a fun action movie with a social message but not as intelligently portrayed in District 9 but not too forced either. I loved the realistic portrayal of the corrupt futuristic world; not everything is pretty and flashy. The visual effects are incredible, the music is great and it is just an awesome flick. There are only a few minor problems though. While the characters are not incredibly deep or fleshed out, they are well realised and have good motivations especially the grimy villain. The problem is Jodie Foster's character and overall performance. It is just strange, odd and her character is two-dimensional. There are other nit-picky points like why did we build a giant space station that must have taken decades to produce when we could use some of resources to help humanity. These are not important as the film is a blast (to a guy's face) from start to finish. 7.5/10