Solid Sci-Fi Flick with to much unwarranted hate

Rating: 7/10 (7 January 2016)

I honestly wasn't a massive fan of District 9 but was intrigued by this movie as it seemed to have an interesting plot and one of my favourite actors Matt Damon in it. While it's definitely flawed Elysium is a solid action flick and well directed by Neill Blomkamp. Matt Damon was great in this movie he was really good in the action scenes and his motivations were very good and clear. Shartlo Copley was fantastic in this movie one of the best movie villains of 2013 he was just insane and extremely entertaining to watch. The CGI was very good especially during the space sequences as it looked very real just like the action in the movie. The future is very well done it just looks like an awful place to live and they really sold that in this movie and really sold the paradise that was Elysium. The problem is they never bother to explain the future how the world got so desolated and the origins of Elysium. While Copley was fantastic in the movie Jodie Foster was not there was just nothing to her character, her accent was strange and out of place and she had no understandable motivations. While is definitely a flawed movie I really like Elysium and Blomkamp was do hard on himself with this movie and I really don't want him to give up now. Very impressed mostly great performances, well done and realistic action and special effects make for a very entertaining movie. 7.5/10 B