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Elysium

2013

Neill Blomkamp

Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga ...

5.7

46,864

Sci-Fi. Action Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"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	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Elysium' is best appreciated as an intense, brawny, effects-heavy spectacle that benefits from Matt Damon's sympathetic performance"	POS
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"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"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"[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)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"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)"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"'Elysium' is a sporadically engaging tale, as well as a potent commentary on immigration and health care policies (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"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)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Like 'District 9', an allegory of apartheid that took four Oscar nods and put Blomkamp on the map, 'Elysium' delivers sci-fi without dumbing it down (...) Rating: ★★★ (out 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Mr. Damon’s performance helps keep the movie from sinking under the weight of its artfully constructed horrors"	NEU

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