Matt Damon Vs. Space border patrol

Rating: 7/10 (1 March 2014)

Wanting to watch this movie for a long time, and since Jodie foster is in my opinion one of the best and most loving female actors. I had quite high hopes for this sci-fi action flick.
The story of the film is not the highlight of the film, it's your usual old childhood friends who grew apart story. As usual they both still have feelings for each other. They live on a hopeless polluted earth where the middle-class and lower work for the higher-class who live in Elysium. A Space habitat that floats over earth. There are strict immigration laws in Elysium and the population of earth doesn't have access to it. In Elysium they have healing beds for the citizens of Elysium and that's basically what the population of earth need the most and what it's what the story is built around.
The main character is Max(Matt Damon) who is a middle-class man living on earth, he works for the higher class of Elysium in there robot building factory on earth. One day he gets a deadly dose of radiation in his body and only has about five days to live. He sets on a mission to Elysium to get healed. he meets his former child friend Frey(Alice Braga)and finds out her child is deadly sick too and needs treatment. Max needs a ship and gets help from some resistance who wants to rewrite the system and make all the people of earth a citizen of Elysium, so everyone can get medical treatment. The Antagonist of the film is Delacourt(Jodie Foster) the secretary of defense of Elysium. She wants to elect a new president of Elysium and make border control stricter. She puts in use her agent named Kruger(Sharlto Copley) on earth, who she commands to retrieve Max who has important data in his brain. The important data is coding that can reboot the system on Elysium and one can change any detail desired. In this case electing a new president or making everyone a legal citizen. Kruger later becomes an Obstacle for both parties when they get to Elysium. In the end Max dies making everyone on earth citizens of Elysium, and Frey's daughter is healed.
The Story is more or less O.K. It's highly predictable and you have seen it before. It lacks most of the tension these movies need, but besides that it had a good feel to it. It's good when the hero doesn't always live through to the end. The characters are likable with the exception of Frey, she was dull.
The Cinematic aspect of Elysium was the casual modern day slow-mo sequences and hand held camera-work. There were some weird shots in the ground fight where they shot down the red shuttle. And in the hand to hand combat scene in the end between Max and Kruger. I don't much like it when the camera kind of locks on to the characters and everything around gets blurred out. It's an awkward camera job.
The whole impression of the film is good. You have fun, the action is good and you feel with the characters. A weak 7/10.