Interesting and really important movie

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 2013)

Movie packed with visual effects and fast action, but more importantly Elysium is good reflection of current trends on our society: Radical life extension and cure for all diseases similar to these machines on Elysium, is not too far in future. It can be done in just about 10 years with proper funding.
Trouble is: like in movie, real rich and famous people just don't care. They enjoy life and don't care about our future / rest of population. So Earth can indeed become wasteland like in this movie. In many places it already like this and nobody cares. Like in movie, many works exist just to "keep people busy" - robots already can replace many of them and will do in near future.
We need radical change in ways our system works or we end with world looks like Elysium - with immortal rich people and poor sick people living in slums. Or even worse we all will continue aging and die because nobody cares about radical life extension.
Elysium is chance for more people begin thinking about our future and this makes it's really great and important.