Big budget ball of solid dung. This is definitely NOT District 9!!

Rating: 2/10 (15 August 2013)

If you want to watch Elysium, I highly recommend you watch the Youtube trailer. That's it! That's the whole movie right there. There isn't much to it. The plot is so simplistic it is laughable. There isn't much to it beyond the "get to the Elysium" and that's about it.
I also felt like this movie was made to target Australian audience - and I was expecting people shouting "TURN BACK THE BOAT!!" When the refugee ships start getting blowing out of the sky during the early sequence. The whole issue of refugee boats / illegal immigrant that Australia now face is far more complex than what the movie is trying to infer - the message from the movie seems to be a simplistic one dimensional thinking like the popular political slogan some politicians were saying several years ago.
Acting is pretty bad all around too, none of the character had enough on screen presence strong enough to make any sort of impression for me. I couldn't care less if they die or not.
I also felt this movie is what director Neill Blomkamp was trying to do to repeat his success with District 9, there are a lot of similarity - the pacing and the plot point seems to be lift off directly from District 9, but due to bad direction - this definitely isn't as flesh out as District 9 - where District 9 had strong characterization - someone on screen that you can feel strongly for, Elysium simply lacks that connection with the viewer.
There is also some plagiarisation going on with this movie with a lot of plot line and ideas that seem to be copied straight from the Japanese manga "Battle Angle Alita", but in a much simplistic and dumb down tone.
Overall, A huge disappointment. 2/10.