The ending alone is enough to invalidate the rest of the movie.

Rating: 3/10 (9 December 2013)

Elysium feels like 80's B movie writing, wrapped up in sumptuous CGI.
I'm willing to suspend my disbelief to accommodate an underdeveloped plot in order to fill the holes myself with my own imagination.
No really, I am willing to do that. I did in District 9 and it didn't make the movie any worse for me.
And then Elysium ends in an all encompassing glorious system reboots that solves every single problem at once.
Economical issues, health issues, political, logistical, religious, everything is perfect.
You flip a switch or change a line of code and every human being becomes healthy and seemingly immortal at no additional cost or anything.
Makes you wonder why the Elysium political body hasn't done it in the first place if it's so simple and miraculous. It's probably because the rich are simply evil and well, that's what evil does.
They don't need to explain why they had the means to make humanity perfect in a minute but chose not to proceed with it because that's what true evil really is. Like that kid at the daycare that has all the Hot Wheels and doesn't want to share them with his fellow toddlers because he just doesn't feel like it.
One could argue that in our present time, the same concept exists in that humanity is grossly unbalanced and if we ended up "rebooting our system", then every earth citizen would be happy.
The list of reasons that would explain why this can't be done smoothly defies imagination, but in Elysium, we are driven to believe that through it's cinematographic metaphor, the entire structure of humanity as we know it is just an illusion.
That if a similar turn would take place on earth, everything would suddenly turn out awesome.
There would be no economic, political or especially religious tension among the suddenly healthy humans left on earth.
I really wanna see a sequel just for a good laugh.
Elysium 2 : where the earth ends up worse than the beginning of the original movie because overpopulation reaches an unprecedented scale, and humanity reverts to it's primal roots of god worshipping warfare and it's back to square one.