Elysium (Neill Blomkamp, 2013)

Elysium gives us Matt Damon, seemingly in a shift-based arrangement with Will Smith and Tom Cruise as the saviour of humanity in the familiar future dystopia, as a member of the serf-like masses back on Earth who stands up against the upper stratum of society living in orbital luxury. Before long, he's got terminal radiation poisoning to set up his martyrdom and an exoskeleton to give him superpowers and then it's strictly done by numbers. Blomkamp's world may not have aliens in it as in his breakthrough hit District 9, but it still feels oddly like the same place and hence there's little to surprise in the set-ups and vistas, no matter how efficiently they may be realised.

5/10