Review of Elysium (2013) by Movie K — 22 Dec 2016
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Matt Damon dream of going up there since young in the orphanage.
His best friend Alice Braga is a nurse. Matt has multiple criminal records especially GTA. He works in a robot police making factory run by William Fichtner. One day he is force to fix a jammed door and it close on him, exposing him to radiation.
William wants him out. Wagner Moura who is a thug, organize shuttle service to Elysium. Jodie Foster is the defense secretary in charge of the peace, is cold blooded. She activate a sleeper agent Sharlto Copley on Earth to launch missiles to shoot down 3 shuttles to Elysium.
2 went down and 1 landed. A handicapped girl use the high tech healing machine to cure her legs but soon all refugees are caught. The president is not happy of Jodie method of using agent and order the agent denounce.
Matt has few days of survival only and he find Wagner for help. Given a job to hijack a wealthy man's brain for data, Matt choose William as target and himself fix up exo-suit to be strong and powerful like robot.
Jodie ask William to re-program the robots so that a coup is executed for her to become the president. William over write the program and is on the shuttle. Matt and gang shot it down and trying to sync the data.
Jodie receive the news and secretly activate Sharlto and 2 others to rescue William but he is dead. Matt got the data but it is scrambled mode. Injured Matt find Alice for help. She want Matt to bring her ill daughter to Elysium and get the machine to cure her illness.
Sharlto track down him and barge into Alice home to interrogate.
This review of Elysium (2013) was written by Movie K on 22 Dec 2016.
Elysium has generally received positive reviews.
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