10 Reasons You Shouldn't Get Excited About Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5

5. Blomkamp Struggles To Deliver On His Ideas...

Aside from Alien, the other big piece of Chappie promotion that caught the internet's eye was Blomkamp's admission that he dropped the ball with Elysium (just wait a couple of years and he'll be saying the same about his latest), stating that he really liked the concept of "a ring, filled with rich people, hovering above the impoverished Earth", but didn't put it in a strong enough story. Isn't that just emblematic of what Blomkamp's being doing since District 9? Both Elysium and Chappie are him throwing out a single idea he finds cool, then attaching the same old artistic design and narrative around it, meaning whatever comment he wanted to make gets lost. The only reason District 9 didn't end up the same way (and what initially seemed like an overly heavy-handed allegory easily could have been) is because it was an idea Blomkamp had been working on for years, able to iron out any narrative kinks. The implications this has for his Alien movie is obvious; if he's twice managed to bungle great idea, what hope do those concepts have of forming a great movie?