Don't bother

Rating: 1/10 (3 November 2014)

Matt Damon and Jodie Foster are tremendously talented. Neill Blomkamp matches their talent from the director's chair, and the special effects and action scenes are on par with any good sci-fi action thriller.
What makes this film stink to the high heavens is the obvious political and social messages being sent. At least Star Trek was subtle about the political and social agendas being promoted. This film throws off the subtlety gloves and goes bare-knuckled to embrace the entire Occupy movement during which the film was produced.
You have the one-percenters living in a dream world of comfort and luxury, with the rest of the louts living in crime, disease and poverty. Up comes an aggrieved protagonist and baby, it's ON!
Oh, please.
Now, if those were aliens up there on Elysium, enslaving the human race and exploiting them so ruthlessly, you have an interesting storyline for this film.
Both Damon and Blomkamp deny that there is a political message in this story. I'm not buying their denials. It's too obvious and too plain for any but the most naive. Hollywood, except on the rarest of occasions, needs to keep its nose out of the political tent. Entertain me. Don't try to educate or indoctrinate me.
I didn't click the "spoiler" button because honestly, I don't know how this ends. I didn't finish it and ejected the disc in utter disgust.