Here's a mathematical problem:
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| Why, you get Elysium, of course! |
In a dystopian future, Earth is overpopulated and diseased. In an attempt to escape the madness, the powerful and privileged put their money together to build the utopia they feel they deserve, separate from the regular people, Elysium: a Mercedes hood ornament-shaped paradise that orbits the Earth.
Matt Damon plays Max; an ex-con and former troublemaker who's looking to make his life better. Since he was a child he had always dreamed of one day going to live on Elysium, an impossibility for someone in his class.
When an accident causes Max to become deathly ill, he races against time to find his way to Elysium to cure himself, because on Elysium lies technology that can cure any disease or physical ailment.
But there's more to the story than meets the eye. While Max tends to his own needs, he unwittingly entangles himself in a conspiratory plot by Delacourt (Jodie Foster) to take over Elysium!
My Rating:
4.000579345 out of 5 stars
I had a good time watching this movie! Like I mentioned earlier, this movie has elements of Keanu Reeves' Johnny Mnemonic, The Hunger Games and District 9.
Elysium is the second major motion picture by director Neil Blomkamp with District 9 being his first; and you can certainly see the influences.
Sharlto Copley (who seems to have a tight relationship and loyalty to Blomkamp as he has been a main character in both of the director's major films and will also be in his next major film, Chappie) is the insane villain, Kruger. He was such a joy to watch because of how crazy he was! He stole every scene he was in and made you want to see more of him.
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| Murdock from the A-Team looks rather shady here! |
This is not the ultimate action flick and it isn't Damon's best movie, but it's definitely worth a watch.
Watchable Meter: Good for theaters, good for multiple watches on DVD
What did you think?
Jay
Had a lot of political overtones which I won't get into. Overall, I enjoyed it, but it doesn't take much. I grew up on fifties monster special effects!
ReplyDeleteAll in all, it had its moments, but also some ridiculous ones (are we supposed to believe that someone gets gut-stabbed with a 2' blade and can get up and go to fighting the next day?). And one weird machine can cure all ills?
*Spoiler Alert!* - I thought it was s cool tie-in where Max keeps saying throughout the movie, "I don't want to die,", and then, at the end, when Spider tells him to upload the data from his mind will finish him, you can just guess his next thought" "Oh, crap..."
Still, it was a fair, well done movie. I'd see it again (but only on DVD).
Hahaha! I know what you mean! I let that stuff go because above the knife wound and machines that heal everything in the universe, how was a functional city of that magnitude and technology built in space?
ReplyDeleteWhen you think about that, the rest kind of falls into perspective of "not a chance it could happen, but needed for the story".
I forgot to mention one other thing: I don't know if you noticed it Rick, but there were about 5 minutes in total where the camera had a blur during the action sequences that made the movie look almost like a video game.