2. Elysium Is The Best-Reviewed Blockbuster Of 2013
Neill Blomkamp delivered one of the most audacious directorial debuts in film history with District 9, one of the greatest sci-fi films of the last decade, paralleling alien-human relations with Apartheid in South Africa, and the film won a Best Picture Oscar nomination as a result. Blomkamp has been busy working on his mysterious follow-up, Elysium, another socially conscious sci-fi that appears to allegorise immigration, as people from Earth - which is now desolate and contaminated - attempt to move to a pristine space station, while the authorities make pains to prevent this. With a top-notch cast including Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga and William Fichtner, and a budget of $120m - given what Blomkamp did with $30m on District 9 - this film has some serious potential to not just be the best blockbuster of 2013, but also the best film full stop.