1%ers vs 99%ers

Rating: 7/10 (9 August 2013)

I saw "Elysium", starring Matt Damon-The Bourne movies, Chasing Amy; Jodie Foster-Panic Room, Taxi Driver; Sharlto Copley-The A Team-2010, District 9 and Alice Braga-Predators, I Am Legend.
This is a sci-fi action movie that is directed by Neill Blomkamp, whose first movie was 'District 9'-this is his second film. It takes place in the year 2154, where Earth is over populated and diseased, at least 99% of the population, anyway. The 1%, who just happen to be rich, live on an orbiting space station called Elysium, where diseases can be cured instantly and they live in mansions. Jodie is the Defense Secretary of Elysium, second in control after the President. Matt, who lives on Earth with all the other poor people who can't afford good health insurance-Hey, that sounds like it could be straight out of the headlines of what is going on right now-gets hurt on his job and only has five days to live. His only chance is to get up to Elysium and get a cure but Jodie has a habit of shooting down any unauthorized ships-she doesn't seem to like the poor illegals that are only trying to get their share of the pie. Alice is a childhood girlfriend of Matt's that also has a reason to get to Elysium and Sharlto plays an off the books enforcer for Jodie; you know, doing all the dirty clean up jobs that Jodie doesn't want the President to find out about. It's rated "R" for violence and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 49 minutes. I did not like the ending, but I enjoyed it enough that I would buy it on DVD.