Elysium

I shelled out $10 in IA to see Elysium in IMAX, which I tend to forget how fucking awesome IMAX is, so it was nice. ANYways Elysium is the story of a young poor kid named Max (Matt Damon!!!!) who dreams of a floating wonder-world for the rich called Elysium. In the ridiculous category all disease and essentially everything has been cured. SO, if you live there you stay perfect and never die. Somehow you don't run out of money or anything, which seems strange because Elysium seems to have no industry or anything besides beautiful homes and lawns. Robots are your servants and protectors and the evil people of the poor, dumpster-like shit palace Earth cannot reach you. People from Earth try to get there, but are either destroyed at the command of the creepy Jodie Foster (who sometimes tries to carry some form of shitty accent, sometimes not, but in either case has MASSIVE calves, which is scary), or are immediately apprehended by robots and sent back. Max is a career criminal who is finally doing the 9-5 thing working in a factory making the robots that police Elysium. There's a foolish & time consuming love story dating back to when he was a kid and promised the new girl, Freye (I think), that he would get them to Elysium one day. He mouths off to robots and gets his arm broken. For some dipshit reason he has to get it cast like a regular schmuck at a hospital where he meets Freye again. She promises to get coffee, but also says her life is complicated. Damon goes back to work, eats a Hiroshima ground-zero sized dose of radiation and is given 5 days to live. He goes on a crazy mission to get to Elysium by working with local gangster/hacker Spider. He has one friend, (Side note: I'm happy Diego Luna to get an OK role in a big motion picture, it's not Spider, but it's a decent one as Damon's best/only friend.) who attempts to help him and that's when shit gets crazy and Willus from District 9 (Sharlto Copley) bulks up huge and plays a crazy Eastern European-ish psychopath who is Jodie Foster's dude who does dirt. It's a pretty standard Summer blockbuster, but there's less action than you'd think. Bottom Line: 7.3 out of 10. Pretty good acting, but less action than I expected. Love story got in the way, though I'm a cynical asshole, so I should preface that. Probably not worth paying $10 to see in theaters, but worth seeing at some point at a cheaper price.