cobbled together from '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY'; take your pick of any Philip K. Dick mind-f#@k flick; any TWILIGHT ZONE and pretty much every sci-fi flick in the past 30 years

Rating: 7/10 (11 August 2013)

ELYSIUM (2013) **1/2 Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, William Fichtner, Brandon Auret, Josh Blacker, Emma Tremblay. Hodgepodge sci-fi dystopia from filmmaker Neill Blomkamp with Damon as an ex-con living in hell-on-Earth in a wasteland that is LA in 2154 where the well-to-do live in a cosmic gated community space station that is about to get its just desserts when he unwittingly gains access to info about its NSA officer Foster (channeling Dick Cheney in Hillary Clinton's pant suits yet!) who's plans for a coup will endanger all of the world's struggling populace. While there are some inventive special effects and a good turn by Damon, the film feels cobbled together from '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY'; take your pick of any Philip K. Dick mind-f#@k flick; any TWILIGHT ZONE and pretty much every sci-fi flick in the past 30 years; what's old is new again for the most part - the future sucks.