The greatest movie ever!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Neill Bloomkamp's Elysium is a good science fiction film which has a lot of social commentary themes going on like his previous endeavor District 9. In this instance it is a look at the economic injustices that he decides to play out. The film is set on a space station orbiting Earth and our lead, played by Matt Damon lands there to save his own life. He realizes the difference between the rich who inhabit the ship and the not so well off and decides to fight the injustice. The film looks stunning and Bloomkamp's visual style can easily be distinguished. Matt Damon is adept in playing a mercenary and Jodie Foster is especially delicious playing against type.

In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds. Matt Damon truly brings the action in 'Elysium' a film that is both beautiful looking but also packed with beautiful cinemtography and a very intelligent plot. Sharlto Copley also did a terrific job as the main antagonist of the movie and Jodie Foster? She was pretty good too but this is really a very underrated sci-fi epic and i guess that year was full of them.

Elysium is a very intense blend of raw gritty suffering and hightech scifi action. Next to classics like Aliens and Blade Runner it is the most dark and realistic form of scifi I have witnessed in decades. This movie shreds every social cohesion in society on earth, just to satisfy the needs for profit of the few sadistic rich on an artificial planet called Elysium.Still gasping for breath after I just watched it. It is one hell of an intense rollercoaster ride. No time for breathers. Photography and soundtrack are thunderous and excellent. The acting is right in your face and real. The characters are humbling and in a constant state of panic ridden pain. Not a popcorn movie although it can be easily mistaken for one because of all the violence. But the violence isnt heroic hollywoodstyle. The violence is mean and there is no typical happy hollywood ending either, although the climax is heartwarming and joyous in a certain way.Director Neil Blomkamp's earlier District9 was also immersed in hideous inequality, just as Elysium is. The suffering of the poor is never portrayed however for cheap thrill effects, on the contrary, the all too realistic depiction of inequality is used as a source of righteous outrage to conquer the oppressing evil forces. "Elysium" is both a heinous and glorious struggle between good and bad in which Matt Damon is the chosen one to defend the rights of the people on earth. In Elysium Matt Damon is like Superman on crack: a righteous skeleton fighting machine against his will, battling a wicked dictatorship.Is a new scifi classic born with Elysium? Time will tell. The story is too depressing, realistic and dark to gain mass popularity. But it is certainly among my all time favorite scifi movies. Seen it over 5 times now and I will certainly enjoy more viewings!

This was a nice surprise as I didn't even know this movie existed before watching it on TV. The main characters and the futuristic science fiction made me watch it.I think they could have better addressed the issues of an over-populated and diseased Earth (that can indeed resemble our future planet). From a macro story of the Earth's population, the movie focus too quickly on the micro story of two or three main characters. The golden Paradise of Elysium is poorly shown, it almost felt like there wasn't any money left to show it properly as we only get glimpses of what is going on in there... This is in my opinion the biggest mistake of the movie.The whole story is a good one, heartwarming even, but sometimes skips logical steps perhaps to prevent the movie from being too long but also making it just one more science fiction story that we enjoy watching but will hardly 'revisit' from time to time.The acting was great, I felt sorry about Matt Damon's anger and troubled life. It is definitely worth watching but not good enough to be remembered.