ROGER4314
Been Called "Flash" Since I Was A Kid!
My ex-lady friend and I saw this together today and enjoyed it. She gave it a "B" and I scored it a B+!
The movie is set in the year 2115 or around that date. Earth has become a real crap hole that is overcrowded, dirty, dangerous and a real lousy place to live. The environment is nasty and the air is foul. Water coming from a faucet looks like crankcase oil.
Jobs are few and far between but our hero, Matt Damon has a job in the midst of all this poverty.
Meanwhile, the ruling class has set up life in a huge space station in orbit called Elysium. Any attempt to come to Elysium proves fatal thanks to brutal security by Jodie Foster. Residents of Elysium have everything wonderful in contrast to the crap life on the planet surface. Everything is beautiful on Elysium and they have machines that eradicate disease and provide them with an immortal and disease free life. Naturally, they aren't sharing that good life with the masses.........You know, like the ruling class in the US today. There's the ruling class of plenty............... and the rest of us.
Matt Damon has an accident at work and is exposed to lethal radiation He has 5 days to live and no one cares. He is determined to get to Elysium to get a dose of that immortality machine. His childhood lady friend has a daughter dying of Leukemia so that ties in with Damon's need to get to Elysium, too.
Damon signs on for a suicide mission to capture an Elysium big shot. He has nothing to lose and the mission gets bloody. The Big Shot has security sensitive data in his head which Damon downloads to his head. The rulers aren't going to let that information get to the masses so the fight is on!
Gonna stop with the plot so I don't give it away.
The movie was interesting and had some good social commentary. Frankly, the contrast between the ruling class of privilege and the masses was stark, gritty and so much like our society. The masses were expendable and counted ZERO while the cool guys had everything. Gotta admit, that pissed me off to see the logical progression of our elitist ruler class today.
The action scenes were gritty and violent. The weapons, were interesting as they were clearly AK-47 and Remington 870 type shotguns with explosive projectiles and added gizmos.
Language included a few "F" bombs but by today's movie standards, was pretty tame. There was some camera shaking (which I detest) in the action scenes but it was pretty well done and kept the action moving.
I got a little sleepy at about the 1/2 way mark and thought the story dragged at that point. In all, it was an entertaining flick, pretty well done and a fairly engaging story. There were a few trite additions like the poor little sick kid that seemed out of place in a world where no one cares about anyone else.
Our ratings? Bonnie "B", Flash "B+". It's worth seeing!
The movie is set in the year 2115 or around that date. Earth has become a real crap hole that is overcrowded, dirty, dangerous and a real lousy place to live. The environment is nasty and the air is foul. Water coming from a faucet looks like crankcase oil.
Jobs are few and far between but our hero, Matt Damon has a job in the midst of all this poverty.
Meanwhile, the ruling class has set up life in a huge space station in orbit called Elysium. Any attempt to come to Elysium proves fatal thanks to brutal security by Jodie Foster. Residents of Elysium have everything wonderful in contrast to the crap life on the planet surface. Everything is beautiful on Elysium and they have machines that eradicate disease and provide them with an immortal and disease free life. Naturally, they aren't sharing that good life with the masses.........You know, like the ruling class in the US today. There's the ruling class of plenty............... and the rest of us.
Matt Damon has an accident at work and is exposed to lethal radiation He has 5 days to live and no one cares. He is determined to get to Elysium to get a dose of that immortality machine. His childhood lady friend has a daughter dying of Leukemia so that ties in with Damon's need to get to Elysium, too.
Damon signs on for a suicide mission to capture an Elysium big shot. He has nothing to lose and the mission gets bloody. The Big Shot has security sensitive data in his head which Damon downloads to his head. The rulers aren't going to let that information get to the masses so the fight is on!
Gonna stop with the plot so I don't give it away.
The movie was interesting and had some good social commentary. Frankly, the contrast between the ruling class of privilege and the masses was stark, gritty and so much like our society. The masses were expendable and counted ZERO while the cool guys had everything. Gotta admit, that pissed me off to see the logical progression of our elitist ruler class today.
The action scenes were gritty and violent. The weapons, were interesting as they were clearly AK-47 and Remington 870 type shotguns with explosive projectiles and added gizmos.
Language included a few "F" bombs but by today's movie standards, was pretty tame. There was some camera shaking (which I detest) in the action scenes but it was pretty well done and kept the action moving.
I got a little sleepy at about the 1/2 way mark and thought the story dragged at that point. In all, it was an entertaining flick, pretty well done and a fairly engaging story. There were a few trite additions like the poor little sick kid that seemed out of place in a world where no one cares about anyone else.
Our ratings? Bonnie "B", Flash "B+". It's worth seeing!
