Elysium

[T]he visuals are breathtaking and there's a mid-movie shoot'em-up that's one of the best in the genre.

Hollywood loves a white saviour.

Any thematic audacity is snuffed out by action sequences that you can now buy at Dollar General.

It's a long time since any major studio closed the silly season with a $115 million Marxist polemic.

Just as the creation of a future nightmare, one that disturbingly resembles the world we already know, Elysium is masterful - definitely worth seeing.

You don't know where to look next, or to listen, in this movie. Every actor seems to have come from a different rehearsal room.

This is Damon’s film from a performance perspective.

The film isn’t a failure, the evocation of the squalid livings of those on earth is an interesting one, and the gulf between health care and general life for those who are poor vs those who are wealthy is ample fodder for a science fiction film to draw on

A dystopian hero’s journey that could well have been adapted freely from Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine.” But like better science fiction, it’s an allegory that lines up parallels to the present moment, but doesn’t fuss so much over extended metaphor.

The result disappoints not only because it fails to meet our admittedly unrealistic hopes that it might live up to Blompkamp’s first, but because, ironically enough, the outcome isn’t as polished as his sophomore effort.