Elysium

Elysium 

Rating 3 out of 10

Okay, first thing I would have done with this script (there are lots I would do) is change the name.  Not only is Elysium hard to spell and pronounce it just doesn't tell you anything about the movie.  Lucky you have me to explain it all for you.  : >

Just over 140 years from now the Earth is a wasteland.  If they said what caused the ruins I didn't catch it.  All the buildings are tore up and LA could use another coat of paint.  There seems to be plenty of clean water and I'm not sure why they can't grow food.  Trash is everywhere yet no one makes an attempt to clean it up.  To make things worse for the poor people of Earth when they look up they see a huge space station thing where the evil rich have built where everything is clean and green and they can live to their excess.  

Young Max  (Matt Damon) turns up at an orphanage in LA where everyone speaks Spanish.  There he meets a young girl Frey (Alice Braga) who becomes his soulmate.  Well, until he gets into stealing cars and goes to jail and she goes somewhere never explained and has a daughter.   Max promises Frey some day he will get them to the wonderful place called Elysium.

The worst thing about those evil rich people in Elysium is while people on Earth are dying in the streets  from sickness and disease up on the space station they have a thing that looks like a huge tanning bed.  Instead of giving you a nice brown tan this bed will in seconds cure any disease/problem you have.  Because they are evil they won't share even one of them.

When Max is forced into a restricted area at work by his mean boss he is dosed with a lethal amount of radiation.  Given five days to live and a bottle full of blue pills to help him cope it becomes his mission to take over Elysium.  Oh yeah, Frey's daughter has cancer and only days to live.  Ugh.

Not much good I can say about the movie.  They seemed to have a big budget yet the effects were some you'd see on the old Star Trek tv show.  Damon does a decent job of acting.  I just don't know why he signed up for this.  Jodie Foster used to be an award winning actress and now she gets to overact as the heartless military leader of Elysium that can order Earthlings to be killed without blinking.  The rest of the actors are so bad I wonder if they emptied a homeless shelter for actors in LA and promised each a job.

This is a class welfare sham by liberal Hollywood that poorly disguises itself as an action movie.