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Elysium

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Original title: Elysium
Year: 2013
Running time: 109 min.
Country: United States
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Screenwriter: Neill Blomkamp
Music: Ryan Amon
Cinematography: Trent Opaloch
Cast: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, William Fichtner, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, Talisa Soto, Ona Grauer, Terry Chen, Adrian Holmes, José Pablo Cantillo
Producer: Media Rights Capital (MRC), QED International, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), TriStar Pictures
Genre: Sci-Fi. Action | Dystopia
Synopsis: 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.

Awards: 2013: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Sound

Critics' reviews

"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
"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
"[It] 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: ★½ (out of 4)"

Kyle Smith: New York Post
"'Elysium' is a sporadically engaging tale, as well as a potent commentary on immigration and health care policies (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Claudia Puig: USA Today
"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 4)"

Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
"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 4)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"Mr. Damon’s performance helps keep the movie from sinking under the weight of its artfully constructed horrors"

Manohla Dargis: The New York Times
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