Breaking Bad (TV Series 2008–2013) Wiseguy 'Elysium' review: class warfare heads to space 3inShare Jump To Close Four years ago District 9 hit theaters, heralding the arrival of a new voice in contemporary science fiction. Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s alien-invasion film impressed visually, portraying a gritty, realistic world that seamlessly blended humans and digital creations. Blomkamp has now returned with his sophomore effort, the Matt Damon vehicle Elysium. Back on Earth, things are grim In the year 2154, Earth is overbuilt and overpopulated, so the richest of the rich now inhabit an orbiting space station called Elysium. Spider runs a sort of underground railroad, smuggling the sick and infirm up to Elysium so they can use the healing pods. Carlyle is helping Elysium Defense Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) stage a coup, however, and when Max downloads the contractor’s brain into his own he also gets the secret program that can change Elysium forever. Works at first thanks to detailed world-building Elysium is now playing.
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