Elysium

[eumenides]

This was pretty good though the plot wasn't water-tight and there were odd inconsistencies. Jodie Foster's accent was extremely distracting; was it French, was it German, still confused as it started out American ? Impressively bad bad guy. Not an unpleasant film experience on the whole. 6.5/10

[funthing29]

It had the promise of being an intelligent sci-fi flick but quickly descended into mindless fighting without much in the way of intricate story or complex characters. Some of the special effects looked OK but at other times did not look authentic at all. The premise was decent but the execution was weak. 6/10.

[RAZORBACK]

As a Sci Fi film I enjoyed this holes and all and really liked Copley as the villain.

This sums up quite nicely how I felt after seeing this earlier this evening.

Definitely a few plot holes/inconsistencies plus quite an odd accent from Foster but that didn't get in the way of me thoroughly enjoying this flick. I also thought Sharlto Copley was fantastic in this & it was great that visually this film was very similar/almost identical to District 9.

Overall it's a mainstream sci-fi flick that's well worth catching and one that's more than earned an 8/10 from me ...

[alythonian]

Watched this last night.

Agree with most of the reviews on here. Promising. Great baddy. Jodie Foster's accent was bizarre. Matt Damon was fine but lacking something.

[weliveandbreathewords]

Saw this yesterday and thought it was a load of tripe! :/ didnt keep me engaged at all till the last half hour, and even then the ending to me was a bit too abrupt, like everything was polished over for a crappy happy ending when if you think logically
[spoiler]if the earth went into disrepair because of overpopulation, wont the same thing now happen to elysium? and everyone will be back in the dump where they started? logically i think they should have showed other habitats(like elysium) being constructed, that would have made more sense to me :/[/spoiler]

also i agree with jodie foster sounding weird, not sure if it was her accent or whether she was dubbed but sometimes her words didnt go with her lips :S
3/10 and thats being generous :/

[raj101]

its more a statement on today's way dominant countries thieve resources from others and then want to prohibit 'outsiders' from accessing them. It was an abrupt ending.

[caitlinmorton]

Saw this yesterday and thought it was a load of tripe! :/ didnt keep me engaged at all till the last half hour, and even then the ending to me was a bit too abrupt, like everything was polished over for a crappy happy ending when if you think logically
[spoiler]if the earth went into disrepair because of overpopulation, wont the same thing now happen to elysium? and everyone will be back in the dump where they started? logically i think they should have showed other habitats(like elysium) being constructed, that would have made more sense to me :/[/spoiler]

also i agree with jodie foster sounding weird, not sure if it was her accent or whether she was dubbed but sometimes her words didnt go with her lips :S
3/10 and thats being generous :/

its more a statement on today's way dominant countries thieve resources from others and then want to prohibit 'outsiders' from accessing them. It was an abrupt ending.

There's ways to comment on that without the massive plothole though (rawr, you hit the nail on the head).

[raj101]

yes, plotholes plural, I would add. Watertight wasn't in the ingredients clearly. Equality has taken us the whole of history to not get right, so a 2 houraction movie isn't going to offer a decent answer. Nevertheless if its going to enbrace the question, a better answer would be expected.

[elski]

I wouldn't call what rawr was referring to as a plothole just that the characters had flawed ideas on both sides. I don't think either side had a perfect solution or that it was presented as such. A sequel could be a 'what happened next' as per what rawr described.

The set up did seem require excessive and unexplained unfairness like why [spoiler]didn't the factory (or hospitals) on earth have those machines that could magically cure people? It seemed they didn't have them at all for even those that could p*y or for a worker having an accident like he did. And I don't think everyone would be trying to get up to Elysium at the end, once the machines had been brought to earth. not everyone wants to live in a Stepford wives style fake paradise, it was a creepy place.[/spoiler]

[canadian_turtle]

I thought the idea behind Elysium and the world building was brilliant, much more interesting than I had expected it to be and the political game fitted nicely into it. BUT unfortunately about halfway through the fighting sequences just became tiring and I thought the film was overlong as I kept glancing at my watch. Okay ending, although for many reasons I think they're setting themselves up for an impossible task. 6.5/10 mainly for the cool idea behind it.

This was pretty good though the plot wasn't water-tight and there were odd inconsistencies. Jodie Foster's accent was extremely distracting; was it French, was it German, still confused as it started out American ? Impressively bad bad guy. Not an unpleasant film experience on the whole. 6.5/10

To me it sounded briefly German at the start but was consistently French after. Thought Kruger's accent was much more inconsistent as it sounded like a failed attempt at British English? Really threw me off when he then started to sing a song in Dutch (as we do not have accents like that!) but thought that *maybe* he's Belgium. Turned out he's South African, duh.