I watched Elysium last night. Very enjoyable movie yet I couldn't shake the feeling that I had all seen it before a dozen times, luckily it was decent remix. The best was the world building, the attention to detail was supurb. I can only dream of a sci-fi RPG made with Neill Blomkamp as visual director. Fun to see johny cab back as automated parole officer in Elysium.
The extras on the blu-ray were worth watching as well, finally a decent section about creating sound effects. Plus the helicopter stunt work was amazing. All the dust that kicks up realistically when the vtols do there manoeuvres is done with helicopters flying at 6ft, zipping fast between cars, actors and cameras. The making off all the exo skeletons and real robots was very interesting, the concept art was even better. The design of Elysium space station looks good, although it would never work like that. Oh well, crash landing looks better then docking at the center.
For me Elysium is a very well put together movie with great visual effects, held back by the average story. I would have liked to see some more of the actual space station instead of the heavy focus on chase action scenes which made it feel smaller then the intended scope of the movie. Not as good as District 9, but still worth watching 7.5/10
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