Elysium [Blu-ray]

A sci-fi film about universal health care? Yes, that’s what Elysium is about. The poor have been left to wallow on Earth while the rich live in Elysium a space station that circles the planet. Gangs constantly try to smuggle people onto Elysium so they use its medical machines and cure their illnesses. That’s the situation Matt Damon finds himself in when he’s diagnosed with a terminal sickness.First off the movie looks great. There’s such a stark contrast between the gray slums of Earth and the clean, white and green environment on Elysium. Second, the indifference of the elite towards the people is shown by the fact that they use robots to run Earth. One breaks Damon’s arm when he acts sarcastically. Third there’s a great cast including a power hungry Jodie Foster as the Elysium’s Defense Secretary and Shalto Copley as a ruthless mercenary. I’ve loved everything Copley is in so I was excited to see him here. Fourth there are plenty of exciting moments like when Damon becomes involved in a kidnapping. Last you can’t say this isn’t an original idea emphasizing equality in health services.

2 thumbs up great movie

Lots of action, typical sci-fi , not a bad story line. Haven't seen Jodie Foster act in years . Always liked her acting.

I totally enjoyed Elysium (Two Disc Combo). In the future Earth simply is left to go straight to hell. Today we have a wealth gap brought on by a wage gap. Today more and more the big cities are magnets for the extremely rich who are slowly displacing the urban poor. There are the 1% who own most of the wealth. There is the professional class that populate the top 15% of the wealth pyramid and finally there is the 85% who are considered lesser quality folk. Today we have a working class that is slowing becoming a new underclass.The movie Elysium suggests what will happen if the trends segmenting society based on rich and worthy versus poor and unworthy were allowed to continue unchallenged. Elysium is a gigantic space station sort of like a dyson sphere without the sphere and thr man made star at the center. Earth has become of waste both ecologically and in the form of human debris, the low wage workers, homeless, drug addicts, bums and other humanoid flotsum are religated to the fetterd and festering sewer Earth has been allowed to become.Race does not divide this world Money defines who the haves and have nots are. Poor people of all races live on a poluted nasty Earth ripe with garbage. The healthcare care infrastructure for the poor is vile to the extreme, overworked and filthy/ For the post elite of Elysium health care is advanced to a level that would make Star Trek med bay seem primative. If you have enough money you too can live in a posh space born estate on Elysium where people have real champaigne dreams every minute of the day.The poor toil under conditions of wage slavery like those found in the inner city ghettos today. In Elysium it is not just poor black and brown people who number among the poor even if we are well represented. Elysium unmasks the real agenda of the rich ruling\ owning classes. The middle class is effectively eliminated in Elysium. The poor of all races suffer together in a hell hold Earth where there is no pocket of beauty or joy let anywhere. People are reduced to acting like animals. the most base and vulgar aspects of the human animal has come the new normal. Elysium is what Star Trek's cloud city of Stratos warned us about so many years ago in the old series.The production values for Elysium were the best. the sets were extremely believable. The technology was appropriate and seemed realistic.The sound was good. The video quality was awesome. The special effects were grand but did not take over the story. There was plenty of action and the story did not get in your face preachy. The very happy ending was logical but their was no sense of irony where we got a chance to appreciate what was lost. The ending was a bit too Obamacare socialist for my taste but that did not take away from the joy I had watching Elysium unfold. I would have liked the ending more had it been more of a question mark, asking the audience now that we have the chance how would you solve the problems so carefully shared in Elysium. The questions asked by Elysium are being born around us in todays economy today. In todays world the rich are getting so much richer and the middle class is slowly dying away. It won't be long before Elysium will be reality, the only difference the cities will be shining clusters of wealth and the hinderlands will be festering sewers of poverty. Elysium asks potent questions of its viewers, I wish the tory tellers had put the audience on the hook to start thinking about real answers.

I enjoyed the movie. Not one of my favorites but it was worth watching

Well Earth has gone to los peros as signified by everyone now speaking Spanish, living in a trash strewn graffiti laden environment reeking of taco smoke and who is either an unemployed car thief or employed “on the line” building the robots that mercilessly enslave them. And up in the sky is Elysium where they speak French, drink champagne and where Jody Foster is a Defense Minister whose first act in the movie is to take out the illegals trying to, oh please, “immigrate” illegally to Elysium using special, you guessed it, Homeland Security agents who fire missiles at the illegal shuttles which aside from carrying multicultural illegals are also strewn with trash which floats about the gravity free cabin while the sweating multicultural illegals pray and cry because that’s what people do when they’re fleeing towards something. Throw in Matt Damon and let’s call him “Max” as the poor put upon “worker” with a criminal past and who, as a victim of big business, is given a choice to either enter the radioactive chamber to push a button, because apparently even robots rate higher on the socioeconomic ladder than actual people. Sure. All that is really just the backdrop so a CEO from Elysium who has to mingle with the masses in his factory gets to remind one of the lesser beings not to breathe on him. Yawn. Ok, we’re almost done with the clichés but not quite. Jodie gets in trouble for shooting down the illegals and gets to ask the President if he has children. You’d think she’d know the answer to that. He only says no so she has an opportunity to use the old, “well if you did then you wouldn’t second guess my methods to protect what we have built here.” Sound familiar? I’m already suspecting she didn’t actually “build” that although she may have purchased the labor of those who did but like any them vs us, the them seem to not understand that paying for something is not the same thing as building something. But I digress. I’m 32 minutes into this movie and I already know how it’s going to end. Sure there’s a love interest who happens to have a child with an illness. And our newly radioactive hero who has just moments to live and a black market way to get them both up to Elysium for a cure. Yeah cuz that will work.I must say Jodie Foster is sexy and alluring as a business mom with a bad French accent who wants to rule the world by engineering a coup. Meanwhile back on Earth our hero goes through a chop shop op to, oh I don’t know, become a borg. Ok, so there’s nothing conspicuous about that, he’s going to just fit right in. It’s also comforting to know in 2150-something thugs still wear do rags. You know it’s not going to end well for anyone but did you know the code for bad spy is an English accent? Well now you do. You can also feel comfort in the knowledge sophisticated defense robots have the same bad aim as human bad guys when they’re firing at the good guy. Don’t make Max mad or he’ll be a, wait for it, Mad Max. Sigh. So let’s recap. Useless diseased masses speak Spanish, evil spy hit men speak Cockney and elites, even those named Patel, wield bad French accents.When all else fails call out the drones. And at one point they do just that. We’ve already stopped caring what data Max is carrying that now makes him a target but that usually happens when a script is written to support action sequences rather than plot. Have I mentioned how flawlessly perfect Jodie Foster is with designer hair, clothes and bad French accent? So Max now has Elysium’s operating system stored in his head so he could, theoretically, control Elysium. Of course any space engineers capable of building such a world would never ever have a back up on, say a thumb drive, because if they did that would kind of make the whole movie pointless. But Max thinks he can save the world by unlocking Elysium for everyone.I suppose the fact Elysium is a giant wheel and in spite of having no roof manages to retain atmosphere is one continuity issue too many but apparently hospitals are also no longer necessary because every home has a healing machine, I suppose to handle the daily terminal diseases the inhabitants rarely need. It’s simply a wonder of Imagineering that they seem to be placed near the kitchen because, well, who knows why? Does it even matter? We know we’re going to see the whole thing coming down in figurative flames at the end after the first five minutes because no cliché is wasted on this bloody, violent excuse for a film. And with one computer entry – earth population-legal - Mad Max saves the world – and no one, absolutely no one, has the computer hackem sackem stuff to stop the upload that reoots Elysium and makes it free for everyone. How socialist. This was a horrible movie that probably felt good making because it feeds the poor, downtrodden couch potatoes the lie that a fair society is possible. And yes the “dialect coach” got an undeserved credit at the end as did Seasons Fine Foods catering. I’m so glad I waited til it was $4.99 to rent as I was tempted on several occasions to pay the $12.99 because I really do love sci-fi but this was just sigh-fi.

It's a future I hope we never see, however after my recent fall I'm see how this could happen. I fell and broke my elbow, since I am one of the working poor, doctors don't want to operate so I have full use. Why you ask, because I'm on state medical aid. I work bur my income is very low. Now without full use of my arm, I'm looking at no job. If I could find a place and catch a flight I would risk it to be healed but healing is only for the rich. Watch the movie, it's becoming art depicting life.

Llegó en buen estado pero sin slipcover

El producto llegó en perfectas condiciones y totalmente sellado

A mi me encanta la ciencia ficcion y mas cuando aportan posibles mensajes que puedan llegar a suceder o no. Lo mejor es pasarlobien con ello.

Not really my kind of story - but it was well done, and Matt Damon saves it.

Como siempre Amazon ofreciendo precios competitivos, el paquete llego en el tiempo indicado; me encanta su servicio. La película excelente.