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Rating: 8/10 (8 August 2013)

Wow! I just finished seeing Elysium I must say that director Neill Blomkamp is definitely growing as a filmmaker. As in his prior work  despite the impressive technology, he focuses on the human factor which elevates the movie than just mere blow-up shootem up film. He has definitely made something new once again. The movie stars Max(Matt Damon) as he grows up with Frey(Alice Braga)  though their lives take different paths as they grow up it intersects like an explosion later in life. The basis of the movie is that people living on earth are living in desperation and day by day. There are pockets of rich people but mostly to build ships, sophisticated robots and anything else the very rich needs. The rich actually live in a space station called Elysium which is not only a living habitat but it actually keep people without any sickness and in a good environment. Something people on earth no longer have. Max (used to be a thief) is now a factory worker making robots, but one day due to an accident he is expose to too much radiation and has 5 days to live. Prior to that he meets Frey again who is now a nurse with a very sick daughter. Max tries to get to Elysium for a cure but the only way to get there is through Spider(played by Wagner Moura) and doing it underground, but 1srt Max has to be equip with a 3rd generation exoskeleton which allows him to be faster and stronger. Unfortunately, the person in charge of protecting Elysium is Delacourt(Jodie Foster) who is very ambitious and utilizes an agent name Kruger(well played by Sharlto Copley) with all the means at his disposal to achieve to stop anything from reaching Elysium or even if reach to stop them at all cost. With Spider downloads unto Max a program meant to "reboot" Elysium and possibly change everyone's lives but what ensues is a battle between the haves and have-nots that's decided only by one side completely dying or transformed. the human factor definitely keeps the movie grounded. Is bloody, is not for the meek but like everything it serves it's purpose.