Viva La Popolo

Rating: 3/10 (13 August 2014)

I saw this in the theaters. it was larger-than-life, with plenty of exciting action sequences, special effects, and dramatic scenes. But I left with a frown. A movie should be an overall pleasant experience for ten bucks.
I left with a frown because it just... I can't relate to any of this crap. No, I DON'T f***ing automatically identify tattooed ex-cons as the good guys, you presumptuous leftist nerds, I actually identify them as dangerous members of the underclass. So trying to prop them up as these unfairly marginalized angels misses my heart and splatters against the wall.
Whatever, what really annoyed me about Elysium is that it was dreadfully serious about ramming some kind of message down my throat, but that message (as far as I can tell) was that class warfare would be a GOOD THING. I think this was tailor-made to be swallowed by most people because it's currently fashionable to demonize the rich and not ask questions about why the poor are poor.
Economic inequality exists, but to just jump to the conclusion that diversity through force is a good thing without asking any questions as to why those two groups came to live in those circumstances in the first place? Retarded. Maybe the Earth deserves its squalor and overpopulation because stupid people are crapping out babies they can't or won't take care of. Or that there's no nuclear families.
Most reviews are focusing on the plot holes. These are a little annoying (he sure is dying a long and vigor-filled death by radiation poisoning), but these don't bother me nearly as much as the pro-class-war message this gleaming multi-million-dollar behemoth is pushing.