![]() Max escapes and heads to the armory to save Frey, who has been turned over to Kruger's men. ![]() The ship then crashes on Elysium Max is arrested and taken to Delacourt, who orders a team to extract the data. During the flight, Kruger and Max fight over the data and a grenade explodes in Kruger's face, damaging the ship. Kruger accepts and Delacourt lifts the lockdown so the group can travel to Elysium. After Kruger kidnaps Frey and her daughter, Max approaches him and offers him the data in exchange for the use of a Med-Bay. Max angrily leaves, though not before Spider is able to discreetly place a tracking device on Max. Max goes to Spider, who realizes what the data in Max's head is worth Delacourt locks down all flights up to Elysium, leaving Spider unable to take Max. Max seeks help from his childhood friend and nurse, Frey, who patches him up. Kruger kills Julio but an injured Max escapes with a copy of the coup program while Carlyle's death destroys any possibility of further retrieval from his brain. Delacourt sends a black ops team led by Agent Kruger (whose contract Patel had terminated for shooting the shuttles down) to retrieve it. Max and Julio shoot down Carlyle's shuttle to Elysium and extract the program from his brain. Due to his health, Spider provides Max with a powerful exoskeleton via surgery to significantly increase his strength and stamina. ![]() Max demands that the target be his former boss John Carlyle. Max and his friend Julio approach Spider and make a deal: If Max can successfully steal information from a powerful Elysium citizen, in exchange Spider will give Max a shuttle ride to Elysium to use a Med-Bay to cure his condition. ![]() He is given medication and told he has five days to live after being dismissed by Carlyle from Armadyne. On Earth, parolee Max Da Costa is working for Armadyne Corp as a laborer when he is accidentally exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. Carlyle writes the program and stores it inside his brain. In retaliation, she offers Armadyne Corp CEO John Carlyle defense contracts for life in exchange for a program that will allow Delacourt to conduct a coup and install herself as president. Elysium President Patel reprimands Delacourt for her actions, threatening discharge for any more actions of a similar manner. Elysium Defense Secretary Delacourt shoots down two of the spacecraft in space, killing everyone on board, and has everyone on the shuttle that does reach Elysium arrested and deported. Spider, a hacker living on Earth in Los Angeles, runs three space shuttle flights to Elysium to smuggle people in to use their Med-Bays, devices that can heal any disease or condition. The planet’s citizens live in poverty while the rich and powerful live on Elysium, an orbiting space station just outside of Earth’s atmosphere. In 2154, Earth is experiencing ecocide, it is overpopulated, diseased, and polluted. It grossed $286 million and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 17, 2013. It received positive reviews, but critics considered it to be disappointing after Blomkamp's first film, District 9. The film was released on August 9, 2013, by Sony Pictures Releasing through the TriStar Pictures label, in both conventional and IMAX Digital theaters. The film itself offers deliberate social commentary that explores political and sociological themes such as immigration, overpopulation, transhumanism, health care, worker exploitation, the justice system, technology, and social class issues. ![]() The film takes place on both a ravaged Earth and a luxurious artificial world ( Stanford torus design) called Elysium. The film stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster alongside Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, and William Fichtner. It was Blomkamp's second directorial effort. Elysium is a 2013 American dystopian science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Neill Blomkamp. ![]()
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