No plot, kinda entertaining, but not my film

Rating: 5/10 (21 August 2013)

I give it a five because the special effects are great and all the robots and weapons are nicely designed. First of all, I don't understand which people are living on Elysium (how many of them, why they are wealthy, how they don't get bored with living in the same place doing nothing, who votes for the President). You can't see clearly why Elysium is SO GOOD. Secondly, I don't understand why people on Earth are SO poor, they are criminals or they seem so, nobody cares for birth control plans (too many people on Earth and only a few on Elysium?) and all people there dream of living on Elysium, but they don't know anything about it apart from the fact that people seem to have no diseases at all. I don't think that Matt Damon's character wants to be a hero "to bring equality to the world", as the summary says. If you watch the movie, you'll see his reasons, and, in fact, you don't clearly see them till the end of the film. The movie doesn't make you think about differences among people, the rich ones are bad and the poor ones are sick rats, apart from the fact that on Elysium they speak French and on the Earth Spanish. I prefer, for example, The Island, with Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. A lot more fun, a nice plot, a movie that made me think about having money to do whatever you want. Not this one. This wasn't my piece of cake.