I am looking forward to Neil Blomkamp’s next movie, which starts in South Africa today, called “Elysium”. His claim to fame, apart from growing up in Johannesburg, was that he directed the tremendously successful “District 9” and this is his follow-up movie. It stars Jodie Foster, Matt Damon and is apparently set in the year 2154 where the wealthy people live on a manmade space station called Elysium and the poorer people all live on a over-populated and devastated Earth.

It received pretty decent reviews with the critics on RottenTomatoes giving it 69% and 66% of people walking out and saying they like it, although that is quite a lot less than the 90% rating District 9 received in 2009. Most of the critics have praised Blomkamp’s skills as a filmmaker and his science fiction credentials, telling stories with a strong political undertones, but apparently the weakness of the movie is that the script is not great. The movie has taken in $68 million at the US Box Office so far, but again it is less than District 9 which took it $115,6 million. Elysium has not however finished its run in theatres and obviously can still make a lot more money.