Elysium is
a movie that was full of so much potential but just failed to live up to it.
The whole idea may look new, but the buildup is just cliché upon cliché. Then
there’s the underuse of Jodie Foster, which amounts to a total waste of the
character.
All that you’ll expect to see as you watch Elysium is what they
removed from it. I expected to see an extraordinary, exceptional merge between
Matt Damon’s character, Max Da Costa, and the robot-like stuff they fused to
his cerebral, but instead, he looked like a grown man with polio.
The political
and social view of writer and director Neill Blomkamp (who co-wrote and
directed District 9 (2009)) is well-received on my part: the rich
seem to get better healthcare benefits than the poor.
This science fiction action thriller is set in the future (2154), where two
classes of people live in separate jurisdictions. We have the rich, who live on
an advanced space station called Elysium, built and controlled by a corporation
named Armadyne. And the poor, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth,
controlled by a robot police force under the control of Armadyne.
In Elysium,
there are no diseases, poverty, or war. Due to advancements in technology, a
Med-Pod exists in Elysium that can heal you of any disease or abnormality. It
can even go as far as regenerating a damaged body part.
Things would
have remained as they were until Max was involved in an industrial accident
that exposed him to lethal levels of radiation, which will eventually kill him
in five days.
Max, not wanting
to die, seeks help from a smuggler named Spider, who agrees to help Max get
into Elysium to access a Med-Pod that will save his life—if Max, in turn, helps
him steal information from the man who had Max fired after the accident. Max
happily agrees.
Spider, seeing that Max is struggling to even stay on his feet, arranges for
Max to receive biomedical implants, including a rudimentary exoskeleton that
increases his strength.
From here on,
I’ll have to leave you to go watch the movie to see how it all pans out.
As far as acting goes, Matt Damon is a force that keeps on going. He was fun to watch in his anti-polio suit, but in the end, I found no reason why such a movie should have been made.
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