Elysium
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 9, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
Positive:
26
Mixed:
17
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Adam NaymanAug 8, 2013
One of Blomkamp’s most unlikely conceits is a machine – apparently standard-issue in all of Elysium’s made-to-order McMansions – that can heal all injuries and infections at the flick of a switch. He could have used one to fix Elysium’s battered and broken screenplay. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithAug 6, 2013
For a 99 percenter movie, then, Elysium is kind of a head-scratcher. 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?” Read full review
30
SlateDana StevensAug 8, 2013
Blomkamp proceeds to spend the last two-thirds of his film crashing spaceships into lawns, or staging high-tech fistfights between Elysium’s stolid hero and his even duller arch-nemesis. It’s a waste of a perfectly good dystopia. Read full review
30
TimeRichard CorlissAug 8, 2013
The result is a grim and predictable adventure saga that is not nimble but leaden. Dystopia has rarely been so dysto-pointing. Read full review
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