Elysium ( 2013 )

Movie review score

Elysium ( 2013 ) - " A life For Love "

A very good Dystopian Sci-Fi movie happening around year 2154 . A nice futuristic movie about two groups of people one on earth who are prone of decease due to rise in population in-turn scarcity of resources and the other wealthy group relocated to a nearest man made residential space station orbiting around earth called Elysium. People on earth are strictly prohibited to enter into Elysium but at the same time the people on Elysium still use earth resources for their gain. Max ( Matt damon ) citizen of earth gets accidental exposure to radiation during his work and he has been notified that he could survive only five days with that amount of radiation in him. So the only way for him to survive this odd situation is to get into Elysium where they have Med bays which can cure any illness cent percent. So this movie is about how he manages to get into that Elysium and at same time bringing down a coup a internal politics played by defense secretary of Elysium and finally on how he managed to get the people on earth , the much required citizenship on Elysium which allows them to avail the medical facilities in Elysium without restriction falls rest of the story. Though it had a bit of cliche ending with a mixture of love and sacrifice , still this movie did impress a bit with its concept.

With latest disappointments like Oblivion or After earth , was kind of little worried with these kind of dystopian movies but Elysium proved me wrong. It was never a bad movie at all. It had all engaging factors within it and that exo-skeleton design was a good idea. Though it had more scope using that exo-skeleton but rather the movie concentrated more on the life on earth and elysium. So its definitely not a robocop kind of movie which we could expect. Matt Damon really did it well , those med bay concept , Robot army Driods were all good. Though the ending was kind of blunt but that was expected , still this movie definitely worth watch once. The visuals were good , that space station looks , new weapons and gadgets were all good which will keep us hooked up till the end. A good popcorn movie nothing to take much or leave behind , just a normal entertainer and watchable when compared to all other worst Dystopian movies out there recently......

Some interesting trivia i noticed post watching this movie.

Takes place in the year 2154 AD, which is the exact same year that Avatar (2009) takes place in. The biography of John Carlyle displayed by the computer indicates that he was born in 2010, which makes him about 144 years old. The design reference for the Elysium central server reboot screen is an Award BIOS from a Gigabyte motherboard with an AMD processor. The years and brand names have been changed but not the layout, and the "Wyrd" and "Oracle" drives still connect with an IDE interface. o prepare for the role, Matt Damon had a daily 4-hour workout in the gym. Neill Blomkamp was specific of the character's physical look - he had a mugshot of Damon tacked on to the body of a model on the poster as a reference for the trainer.