What a waste of time! LOTS OF SPOILERS!!!

Rating: 1/10 (11 May 2014)

Okay, once again I wasted my time watching a crappy movie just so I could write an educated review based on personal knowledge and not second hand information. My summary: I want my 2 hours back.
What a piece of crap! This is a blatant anti-anti-immigration film that is nothing more than an esoteric blast at America. Think about it...
SPOILER ALERT!!! DO NOT READ BELOW UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO RUIN THE MOVIE FOR YOU - WHICH WOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE A BAD THING, TRUST ME! Elysium (the word, not the movie) is defined as 1) Also called Elysian Fields. Classical Mythology . the abode of the blessed after death. 2) any similarly conceived abode or state of the dead. 3) any place or state of perfect happiness; paradise.
So the premise of the movie is that there is a gigantic space station orbiting the earth where there is nothing but happiness, bliss, and eternal life, care of machines that can even reconstruct your face if it is blown off by a grenade or completely cure you of leukemia. But, the "problem" with this station is that the only ones allowed there are the rich people who are only so because of their complete disregard of the deplorable working conditions of those on Earth supplying them with their riches. Those on Earth (which looks a lot like Mexico City where it was filmed - surprise, surprise...) are nothing more than cattle trying to eek out a living without access to proper medical care and who are treated like vermin by the robot police. To try and escape their plight, they board shuttles and try to illegally cross the border of space, land in paradise, break into anyone's home to use what doesn't belong to them, and then cry, complain, and moan when they are caught. Oh, and the one who succeeds in thievery are doing it for their child. How heartless we must be if we think this wrong... So, in a desperate attempt to save himself, the "star" allows himself to be turned into a cyborg to steal valuable information that will make every illegal legal so that they all have free access to what they didn't earn...and he valiantly sacrifices himself in the process.
Gee, really? Could this movie be anymore obvious? There are so many things wrong with this film, I don't know where to start or when to stop.
1) Why does everyone on the station speak French or with a French accent? More specifically, why does Jodi Foster even try? She sounds like she's chewing glass trying to get through until her merciful death.
2) Everyone on Slum-Earth speaks Spanish, English, or Spanglish.
3) The station's dwellings are pristine with marble steps up to immaculate mansions with clear crisp clean pools.
4) Earth is trashy, dusty, and just downright nasty.
5) The healing machines on the station never touch the patient. A magic want scans, diagnoses, and heals them in about 30 seconds.
6) The operation we are subjected to on Earth is the stuff of horror films, with power tools, rusty knives, and a tatted doctor wearing a butcher's apron. Oh, and blood everywhere.
Basically in a nutshell, don't waste your time. Elysium the film is nothing like the paradise it tries to emulate.