Elysium - 4K + Blu-ray + Digital

For a recent Sci-fi movie, this one has it all. Solid & believable characters, superb acting; great AI imaging, a very relatable of story.

Neil Blomkamp has done it again and shown us that "District 9" was not a one-trick pony. His part-dystopian, part-visionary look into a futuristic Earth set in the 22nd century is a fantastic spectacle laced with some social commentary. Matt Damon plays the hero of this action-drama set in a future in which human society on Earth has suffered significant decay. Those with wealth and means have escaped the planetary bounds to live in an artificial ring-world habitat called Elysium in orbit about the planet. As the story unfolds, it soon becomes clear that those who live in Elysium are in power and have the best that modern science and technology has to offer to support their lives, while the masses on Earth live in squalor in a police-state society. Damon's character is a factory worker with a criminal past that is just scraping by when misfortune enters his life. The only way out for him is to reach Elysium, but citizens from Earth are apparently almost never allowed to go there. His journey to try to get there requires desperate measures that set up an action-driven plotline laced with elements of drama and a bit of political intrigue. I love both the look and intensity of this film. Neil Blomkamp shows us a future that is technologically-advanced in a plausible way , but that also contains some sobering and somewhat terrifying elements. The story is accessible and easy to relate to without unnecessary complication, and yet the society we are shown has a depth and complexity that makes it compelling and all too real. Although we are not given much of the history that leads to this future, it is not hard to extrapolate from certain elements of current human society and accept this as one plausible outcome. I would have loved to have spent more time being immersed in this world, but what's there is a self-contained story that should leave most viewers satisfied with time well spent. Our solace for having to leave is that Blomkamp is still early in his career as a writer and director, and we can hope to see much more of his creativity and storytelling in years to come.

the movie had potential to be great. The Elysium halo in the sky is an awesome idea and the special effects sold it! What was lacking was depth. I felt like the only person we knew anything about was Matt Damon’s character and honestly it was superficial at best. Uneducated orphan boy who day dreams with an orphan girl, who is educated(why her and not him?), about the good life up on Elysium. Both kids, and others, raised by the prophetic Mexican nun whose words are always profound and perspective changing. Later in life, the boy is Matt Damon and the girl is some semi-attractive single mom that seems to not want anything to do with him. And not like hard to get, like she just thinks Damon is a sleazy d-bag criminal and will only see him if he’s been stabbed by a futuristic rogue Navy SEAL guy or if he begs, like pathetic begs…..but only for coffee. Oh ya, never in any of the numerous flyovers of present day 2154 Los Angeles did I see anything that looked remotely like a Starbucks…..or a coffee shop…..or a straight up store of any kind. Looked more like the slums of that movie with the prawn aliens stuck in the south african apartheid. At some point during the movie Matt Damon gets fatally blasted with radiation and has 5 days to live…according to an extremely advanced version of Siri that somehow speaks and produces holographic displays literally EVERYWHERE!! Figure it out Apple! The solution? Convince your hacker, stoner, tweeker, robin hood/criminal friends to implant a hydraulic exoskeleton/supercomputer to you spine and nervous system only to bum-rush the year 2154 Elysium Bill Gates when he lands on earth in his Bentley space car just to download information from his brain. Of course, everything goes wrong, but actually goes right and during this scene we become awesomely acquainted with to the character that saved this movie from the flop list. The rogue-futuristic-SEAL-Delta Force character was awesome and should be brought back to life, again, to have his own movie where he battles the futuristic prawn aliens from District 9…..even though he turned into a prawn in that movie. Blah blah blah I gave it 4 stars because the effects and action scenes rocked and because I think they did a good job visually with the gravity by spinning Elysium(but very poor job bringing the infrastructure of Elysium to life) I’d watch it again and fully recommend it….but with a little more story and depth, this movie could have been a timeless classic!

I love this movie and can watch it again and again.

1. Amazon US uses a slim bluray cover instead of the normal thick one. This is the second bluray I buy from Amazon US via AU that is delivered on this thin case. It does have sign of bent, I mean, there is no enough material. I mainly buy media from Amazon UK, I am sticking to that no matter how good the deal is. Unfortunately, I got more bluray coming from Amazon US and I don't know how to feel about it, cancel all the orders perhaps. 2. The case looks like somebody held it against the asphalt and dragged it, it looks garbage. 3. Totally don't recommend this bluray release.

Llegó antes de lo mencionado sin detalles. Muy satisfecho con la compra

Sicuramente il Regista ha avuto problemi personali con l'immigrazione visto che anche in questo film si basa su questo problema. In District 9 c'era l'interazione di due popoli diversi mentre qui il problema è tutto interno alla terra con i soliti problemi di convivenza fra le due classi sociali. Come nel primo il regista non si perde in fronzoli la storia resta aciutta e lineare con un Finale......che oviamente non vi racconto. Se vi è piaciuto District 9 sicuramente vi piacerà anche Elysium

A great masterpiece that has your mind on the go, Cast are terrific and storyline is just as good so where can you go wrong. We have the rich and the underdogs so one has got nothing to lose by trying everything and everyway getting to what they want. The only thing is you have a slight problem and that is you need to have a space craft to achieve your goal, make the flight or die trying is the motto.The effects are fantastic that will make you sit up with envy to that I rated this an A grade plus for continuing action every which way that you wont move for fear of missing something. Now telling more will spoil it so I will let you plunder on that and think but not for to long as we don't want you to get a headache. Fast and delivering exploding ideas that you will be wrapped up so much once you start watching you'll forget everything else so I suggest you collect the popcorn run to the lounge put your feet up ready for a fabulous night of entertainment you wont regret and than you can pass on what you think to others. Enjoy!

Great movie, Thanks