Just perfect; but only for people with brains

Rating: 10/10 (9 August 2013)

When was the last time you left a theater from a sci-fi movie really thinking. Well in my case, it was Neill Blomkamp previous masterpiece; "DISTRICT 9". Elysium is not for everybody. The strong social / apartheid critic on District 9; is magnified here ten times more. Those looking for brainless and empty action packed entertainment might be disappointed. The violence level is really high and almost non-stop; however there are no super-heroes here. Damon's character, gets beaten a lot and humor is almost absent; just because the reality been depicted here has nothing to laugh at.
In LA 2154, an small percent of the population lives in a space station called Elysium where technology and cleanness let people live for a long time and illness are easily cured.
While overpopulated Earth has become a factory field where poor people lives in unhealthy condition working as slaves and controlled by very fascist robot-policemen
Max (Damon) plays a petty thief who in work accident gets contaminated (he is forced by a supervisor to enter in a dangerous place ) and will die in 5 days. His only option, try to reach Elysium and get cured; but that is not easy. Jodie Foster is Secretary Delancourt; the security chief of Elysium. She is not really kind with illegal immigration ("we must defend the house we built for our sons "; she states in one moment; forgetting they live in paradise thanks to the hell people in Earth are suffering).
In order to get the resources to reach Elysium, Max must first steal secrets for an Earth gangster; but those secrets are really important for Mrs. Delancourt so she hires Kruger; an assassin / mercenary the kind government officials use and then discard. Things get pretty ugly.
Everything that happens is a reference to social issues; not only in America but in other countries. A couple of Cuban friends; immediately cataloged the movie as "SOCIALIST" or "LEFT"; nothing far from the truth. The movie is only concern about the abuse that governments and governments officials do against common people.
It is great movie; put your brain to work and see it immediately