Elysium

"All the interest and good will built up by the sharply conceived preliminaries is washed away in a succession of scenes that feel crushingly routine and generic 

"'Elysium' is best appreciated as an intense, brawny, effects-heavy spectacle that benefits from Matt Damon's sympathetic performance" 

"Blomkamp again proves to be a superb storyteller. He has a master’s sense of pacing, slowly immersing us into his future world rather than assailing us with nonstop action, and envisioning that world with an architect’s eye for the smallest details" 

"[It] throws away its best opportunity for drama. It’s as if Han and Leia parked on the Death Star and started asking, 'How much is a two-bedroom around here?' (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)" 

"Not perfect, but a much more satisfying Earth-in-ruins film than 'Oblivion' or 'After Earth' (...) [It] confirms Blomkamp as one of the potential science-fiction greats of this decade (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" 

"'Elysium' is a sporadically engaging tale, as well as a potent commentary on immigration and health care policies (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" 

"Loaded with action, a lot of it excitingly imagined, 'Elysium' boasts many of the teeming strengths of South African filmmaker Blomkamp's previous R-rated sci-fi success, 'District 9' (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"