All very soul-satisfying, but....

Rating: 4/10 (3 March 2016)

Elysium's pretty simplistic. The ruling elite have built themselves a perfect environment on Elysium, a space station orbiting Earth, & left the rest of mankind to their polluted overpopulated fate. Fatally irradiated in an industrial accident, Matt Damon joins a band plotting to invade Elysium, where advanced technology can cure any ailment short of death itself. Eventually concluding that mankind's needs take precedence over his personal salvation tho, he sacrifices his life to upload a program that makes all citizens of earth eligible for the same prerogatives as the elite citizens of Elysium.
All very soul-satisfying, the filthy rich get a well-deserved screwing & equality for all is suddenly attained at the flip of a switch. Nice sentiment, but ah.... How does eliminating death by disease or injury so everybody can live pretty much forever help a population that's already destroying its own planet thru sheer weight of numbers?