A brilliant movie that most people are misinterpreting

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2013)

Elysium is possibly one of the best science fiction movies of the last two years & is! Th plot is intelligent, has a meaningful message & brilliant if not amazing special effects. Somehow, despite these three factors, people are ranting & raving, negatively, about Elysium. i mean here's a conversation I've had with a lot of people about this movie & they all sound like this: Person: "Elysium? That movies f***ing sh*t!" Me: "Why is it 'f***ing sh*t' Person: "'Cause it's unrealistic! Earth will never get that bad! It's unrealistic!" This is what I've heard a lot of people say about Elysium & it make me wanna fly-kick a pinata llama. EARTH IS ALREADY LIKE THAT! EARTH IS ALREADY THAT F**KED UP! ELYSIUM IS JUST AN ENTERTAINING, SCIENCE-FICTION, FUTURISTIC VERSION OF TODAY'S SOCIETY THAT HIGHLIGHTS A FEW MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH OUR SOCIETY! Take Mexico for example, its a slum, the people are poor, they resort to messed up things like burro shows to entertain themselves & have probably never spent a day in their life clean. Then, right next to Mexico, is Texas with its abundance of rich people, mansions & other rich people things. Think of it like this: Texas is Elysium & Mexico is Earth.
Putting the negative things behind, Elysium has some great acting in it. You have Matt Damon who plays the character he's given very well & in a way that really makes you feel for the character. Secondly, Jodie Foster's acting was good, I mean any middle aged actress that was OK with dying her hair white & acting like a bitch could have played her, but that doesn't mean Jodie Foster was bad. Lots of people criticized her accent in this movie but I'm not sure what they were complaining about. She sounded British to me......
Finally, Sharlto Copley. Holy sh*t. He played possibly the most malignant & psychotic villain I have ever encounter & played the character perfectly. Seriously, no-one else could've played the character. Every scene Sharlto was in, he sol the spotlight.
Overall I give Elysium 9/20 for its brilliant CGI, entertaining story & a message that had me thinking the whole car-trip home for the cinemas plus a few hours. I would've given it a ten but it felt just a bit to short. I wouldn't go s far as to say that Elysium was as good as Neil Blomkamp's previous film District 9, because it's not, but Elysium is definitely up there.