Saturday Movies: Elysium (2013)

Following in the footsteps of District 9, director, Neill Blomkamp, brings another bleak, but struggle to find humanity in Elysium. Some of the same actors appear again, but this time in reverse roles, and Matt Damon stars in one of his stronger roles of late. With the popularity of Dystopian movies of late, it seems that Elysium is hitting at just the right time. Hunger Games would follow later last year, and Oblivion was one released prior that year.

Summary: It's the year 2154, and the wealthy inhabitants of earth now reside in a spaceship above earth away from the violence and illness that now runs rampant on earth. As kids, Max and Frey dreamed of being able to live there one day, but to live there you have to have the ability to prove membership with a symbol on your arm. Years later Max's life has turned out quite differently, but when he finds himself dying he is desperate to get to the spaceship so that he use one of their machines to heal himself. A man, Spider, is willing to help him get there if he takes on a mission to help bring the two worlds together.