Sci-fi action with a soul

Rating: 9/10 (9 August 2013)

A lot of reviewers complain that this movie's message is heavy-handed. Yet they still miss the message. The message of this movie is more about the plight of illegal aliens. The security agency on Elysium is even called Homeland Security. You have poor people desperately trying to sneak into Elysium with fake citizenship. The message of the movie is that we living in American and Europe live in Elysium and we don't give a damn about the people starving and dying in the third world. We're more concerned with keeping them out.
That's the message and it comes in an amazingly well done sci-fi action movie package. No one can claim that this movie is preachy because IT's AN ACTION MOVIE. The action pacing is non-stop. It has no pauses or lulls. It's extremely difficult to make a movie that is so well paced. Oh, and it has so man bad-ass moments.
Imagine Total Recall (original one) but with better action, a better story and a great human message. That's Elysium.