Do not waste your time nor money on this

Rating: 3/10 (26 July 2014)

I just finished watching this "thing" and in my opinion Matt Damon is a great actor who makes any character he plays great but the entire movie was full of plot holes, predictable, and had a very very very confusing casting choice.
First things first, the entirety of the movie is supposed to be occurring in two places; Earth, specifically America in LA and space. Sounds simple enough, but as I thought I was watching an English spoken movie it turned out to be something requiring subtitles for a considerable duration of the movie. No offence but I wasn't intending on watching a Spanish/French movie this evening.
That being said we can dive into the casting choices and the scenario of the movie. If the movie is set in LA then why is everyone speaking Spanish? even Matt Damon? I mean I can understand if all the rich people are living in space but are you implying that the poor people are those who speak Spanish? Also this movie has 5 charters with minimum lines Max (Matt Damon) his love interest, the female antagonist, and 2 male villains one of which is the sleeping agent who seems to have been breathing in helium for the entire movie which makes everything he says or does amazingly silly.
PLOT HOLES: so Kruger has a shield like technology that protects him from gun shots and other things HOWEVER Elysium doesn't seem to have the ability to use that SAME technology as a shield which makes it normal for unauthorized ships to fly in and out. 2. Kruger gets a grenade in the face... Brain remains intact, SURE. 3. Enemies enter Elysium... one would assume that they have an army of robotic soldiers... none however, are seen protecting oh only the most important building in the city which could basically resemble the pentagon in real life... 6 people took it down ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!! 7. Sure we don't need to know how presidents are chosen on Elysium but you make it seem like John Carlyle can pick or do whatever he wants because... well no one really knows why. 8. Finally and this's the ENDING OF THE MOVIE SPOILER: as the data in max's brain is downloaded and he dies a "heroic" death while speaking again in Spanish (which by the way I did not understand a word of, so the ending was ruined more than it had already been) all people on earth are now citizens of Elysium... So you mean the rich people would be just okay with it and everything is great now? how just how does that make any sense?! Also why didn't spider just make him self president BOOM all problems solved.
All in all I really regret the time I spent on this since it had some potential, should have watched Robo Cop instead and I hope that movie isn't terrible as well.