Left wing propaganda wrapped-up in Sci-Fi

Rating: 3/10 (22 September 2013)

Well, as a big fan of District 9 I was VERY enthusiastic in watching this new movie from the same director. Also, two Brazilian actors in the cast, so I was curious to see how that would work. I wish I had not. Elysium story takes place in a decadent XXII century Los Angeles in which capitalism has brought population to its knees and rich people had migrated to a space station called "Elysium", where every single house has a medical healing curing miraculous device that could fix you no matter what is the condition you are in. Matt Damon character "Max" works as a blue collar worker in Armadyne, the bad profit seeker security company that forces employees to work unsafely which causes Max to be exposed to radiation in a way he'll be dead in a five days' time frame. He's fired as tough he is a piece of garbage and as a result he joins some other criminals in a job to kidnap and steal data from a Elysium citizen who is at Earth (by coincidence, the CEO of Armadyne). Well, to make a long story short, in the end they get the data and manage to make all earth citizen be recognized by Elysium system as Elysium citizens and hence a gazillion of space ships equipped with healing machines are sent to earth to cure all people. So, if you are a left wing nut, you will probably love the move, as Max is pretty much a Sci-Fi Che Guevara, but if you got brain, well, skip it.