ORIGINAL TITLE Elysium
YEAR 2013 Apple Trailer
RUNNING TIME 109 min. 
COUNTRY 
DIRECTOR Neill Blomkamp
SCREENWRITER Neill Blomkamp
COMPOSER Ryan Amon
CINEMATOGRAPHER Trent Opaloch
CAST Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, William Fichtner, Alice Braga, Sharlto Copley, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, Talisa Soto, Ona Grauer, Terry Chen, Adrian Holmes
STUDIO/PRODUCER Columbia Pictures / Media Rights Capital / QED International / Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)
OFFICIAL WEB http://www.itsbetterupthere.com/site/
GENRE Sci-Fi. Action | Social Drama

SYNOPSIS/PLOT Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

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"Blomkamp again proves to be a superb storyteller. He has a master’s sense of pacing, slowly immersing us into his future world rather than assailing us with nonstop action, and envisioning that world with an architect’s eye for the smallest details" (Scott Foundas: Variety)
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"All the interest and good will built up by the sharply conceived preliminaries is washed away in a succession of scenes that feel crushingly routine and generic (Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter)
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"'Elysium' is best appreciated as an intense, brawny, effects-heavy spectacle that benefits from Matt Damon's sympathetic performance" (Tim Grierson : Screendaily)
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"'Elysium' (...) throws away its best opportunity for drama. It’s as if Han and Leia parked on the Death Star and started asking, 'How much is a two-bedroom around here?' (...) Rating: *1/2 (out of four)" (Kyle Smith: New York Post)
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"Not perfect, but a much more satisfying Earth-in-ruins film than 'Oblivion' or 'After Earth'. It is a little more conventional than 'District 9' (...), but confirms Blomkamp as one of the potential science-fiction greats of this decade (...) Rating: **** (out of five)" (Kim Newman: Empire)
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"'Elysium' is a sporadically engaging tale, as well as a potent commentary on immigration and health care policies (...) Rating: *** (out of four)" (Claudia Puig: USA Today)
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"Loaded with action, a lot of it excitingly imagined, 'Elysium' boasts many of the teeming strengths of South African filmmaker Blomkamp's previous R-rated sci-fi success, 'District 9' (...) Rating: *** (out of four)" (Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune)
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"Like 'District 9', an allegory of apartheid that took four Oscar nods and put Blomkamp on the map, 'Elysium' delivers sci-fi without dumbing it down (...) Rating: *** (out four)" (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone)
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"Mr. Damon’s performance helps keep the movie from sinking under the weight of its artfully constructed horrors" (Manohla Dargis: The New York Times)