I'm going to be controversial here and say that I think he is a one hit wonder. District 9 was decent (although unsubtle... "fokkin prawns!"). Elysium was a very crude political commentary on healthcare and inequality (and I can't remember much else about the film except people running around going "fok" all the time and shooting things.)

This is just 2026. Give it a few years and it will become much better. CGI also started embarrassingly bad, peaked, and then went back to bad as studios realised people just don't care that much