The Worst Film Ever

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The general idea of a society on a satellite, while Earth is in shatters, is interesting, though not very original. The corruption of such society, again, interesting. The protagonist, small-time criminal who tries to redeem himself, yet nobody is helping him (quite the contrary), also interesting. There are other lesser interesting pieces.But, the pieces don't bond well, if at all. It's just jumbled up together in some hope it will all work out. But it doesn't.Casting is a major issue. Matt Damon is wrong for this. He's not a great actor, but, if cast well, he's OK. But, when cast bad, like here, he's _bad_. Jody Foster, quite similar, actually. She might be a somewhat better actress, but, she too is prone to miscasting. It's not that she's the "main bad guy", she's actually great at playing The Bitch. But, not this kind of Bitch. The other "main bad guy" is trying to be scary, but fails and I couldn't understand half of the things he said.Bottom line, pass this one. There are much better SciFi movies, including some with similar ideas.

This was a nice surprise as I didn't even know this movie existed before watching it on TV. The main characters and the futuristic science fiction made me watch it.I think they could have better addressed the issues of an over-populated and diseased Earth (that can indeed resemble our future planet). From a macro story of the Earth's population, the movie focus too quickly on the micro story of two or three main characters. The golden Paradise of Elysium is poorly shown, it almost felt like there wasn't any money left to show it properly as we only get glimpses of what is going on in there... This is in my opinion the biggest mistake of the movie.The whole story is a good one, heartwarming even, but sometimes skips logical steps perhaps to prevent the movie from being too long but also making it just one more science fiction story that we enjoy watching but will hardly 'revisit' from time to time.The acting was great, I felt sorry about Matt Damon's anger and troubled life. It is definitely worth watching but not good enough to be remembered.

Movie Review: "Elysium" (2013)This action film has been shot in Summer 2011. The screenplay is a mess of a technological over-side proportions. Director Neill Blomkamp found an overwhelming success with "District 9" (2009) with the U.S. domestic audience on alien invasion restraint in an South African township. Here the director gets a production budget boost from 30 to 115 Million Dollars through producers Bill Block and Simon Kinberg. The resulting footage has been devastating. A major cast with leading Hollywood actors Matt Damon as the hard-working factory employee Max and Jodie Foster as the corporation over-looking ice lady nemesis, do not meet in the storyline, to find some empathic character identifying moments of revelation, instead Writer/Director Neill Blomkamp writes the character of Kruger, portrayed by Sharlto Copley as megalomaniac with the primitive states in language and actions, to lead to a concluding metal gear fist fight between Max & Kruger, which sounds amazing, even has some daring camera motion by technically-competent to creative-talented cinematographer Trent Opaloch with otherwise hand-held directed wasting coverage. Two years in a doomed pit of post-production to an August 9th 2013 release after a two-times push back of release date; enriched, enhanced, tweaked, twisted digitally to make some emotional impact in a world everyone already knows between earners and spenders to finish with a fairly decent editorial by Julian Clarke & Lee Smith, who do not linger to long in any scene in order to reveal the exploitation of talent in characters of no means as Julio & Frey.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

This movie must have managed to annoy almost everyone. I'm surprised that it got any good reviews at all, because don't you all belong to at least one of the groups I'll try and describe in the following lines? First, the SF fans will be annoyed that the makers obviously don't take SF seriously. Whether you have a broken leg or suffer from leukemia - one touch with a ray of light and you're healed by the magical medical device on Elysium. There is not even a weak attempt to convince us a machine like that may exist. Even several centuries later on star ship Enterprise, a cure needed some time. Need more examples? How about the Exo-skeleton, some pieces of plastic glued on a guy's T shirt? This looked terribly cheap for a 100+ million dollar production. And it sometimes provides him with additional power, but sometimes not, depending on how long the fight scene should last. Or the ships that can fly to Elysium in a straight line with continuous speed, no matter whether they fly through the atmosphere at high gravity or empty space with no gravity. They have a year or two to prepare such a movie and don't research some basic physics? Second, the right wing audience is obviously annoyed (see some other reviews below) that a social message is shoved down their throats. Evil rich Americans in space versus nice poor Mexicans on Earth - the social painting in black and white is such a shame that the makers tried to hush it up at least a bit, letting Jodie Foster speak French in one scene for no reason, a PC kind of apology meaning: we didn't say they are all Americans. Still the message is so clumsy and plain that no-one missed it.Third, the left wing audience will be upset that the economic idea how everything will improve is ridiculous. Why should the supplies for a couple of thousand people on Elysium - every resource is hard to keep or produce in space - be sent to Earth for distribution among billions of people? That's one blade of grass for each person at best. And to heal every sickness with the magical device will take a million years, imagine the queue. Practically, you'd have to select again and pick some privileged people to get treatment and food... Back to start.Fourth, movie fans will remember many better movies on similar subjects, from 'Terminator' to 'Silent Running', and dismiss 'Elysium' as a mediocre attempt. In Hollywood blockbuster style, action won over the contents. The leading mercenary wears a samurai sword on his back although he normally doesn't need it; he prefers to shoot with rockets from long distance. He must have thought a sword looks cool. And that's what the movie achieved, it certainly looks cool with that huge space station and the many fights with explosive ammunition. But if you look for intelligent SF with some food for thought, better look elsewhere.