From the first big action sequence pitting Max and his crew against a pair of robot warriors to the mano-a-mano showdown between Max and Kruger on Elysium itself, Blomkamp's knack for visually stunning storytelling takes center stage and as the action gets better, while the screenplay remains firmly rooted in the competently obvious, one gets the distinct impression that while not getting "District 9-redux" might be a surface letdown, getting instead, a perfectly paced well-acted old-school sci-fi action vehicle that might just be Blomkamp's quiet thumbing of his nose at what passes for modern sci-fi spectacle. Kruger comes to life not from the dialogue he spews, but the intensity of Sharlto Copley's performance, a complete polar opposite from the reluctant everyman turned revolutionary in "District 9." Copley is a great foil to Damon's hardheaded nobility and at times is incredibly terrifying in both tone and action, all possible via the tremendous visual effects department.
What makes "Elysium" tick and run so smoothly though is not its occasionally rote screenplay, but it's no-nonsense polished action often featuring the film's most intriguing villain, Kruger a bionically enhanced, sociopathic, black book agent working on Earth for Delacourt. The circumstances turning Max from one of the oppressed masses to an exoskeleton enhanced super warrior are inconsequential, but the overt symbolism and connection to childhood friend, Frey (Alice Braga) and her terminally ill daughter shouldn't make the film's eventual direction all that shocking. Instead, we are thrown into the midst of the action on both Earth and Elysium, following ex-con Max DeCosta (Matt Damon) in LA and Delacourt (Jodie Foster) on Elysium, through the character of Carlyle (William Fichtner) who is simultaneously running the company that Max works for while staging a coup on Elysium. Blomkamp's script does indeed set out to build itself on fundamental human rights issues, not all that removed from "District 9," but does so with little subtlety and most detrimentally, a lack of slow-burn buildup to an action backed second and third act.
THX GENESIS 1080p HD SCOPE DTS:NEURAL UPMIX Encoded in AC3 5.Blomkamp's sophomore effort tells the classic tale of a caste society set between a 2154 vision of post-apocalyptic Los Angeles and the utopian outpost of Elysium, a place free of all disease only available to the most wealthy and privileged. THX GENESIS 1080p HD FLAT DTS:NEURAL UPMIX Encoded in AC3 5.1 THX GENESIS 4K UHD SCOPE DTS:NEURAL UPMIX Encoded in AC3 5.1 THX GENESIS 4K UHD FLAT DTS:NEURAL UPMIX Encoded in AC3 5.1
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