'Elysium' review: bang go the guns, ka-boom go the metaphors

By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - We've screwed up the world again in "Elysium," another futuristic dystopia in which mankind has turned Earth into a dusty, overcrowded and polluted hellhole. The watchful eye of writer-director Neill Blomkamp ("District 9") gives us a groovy kind of doom, with the vast majority of mankind struggling to stay alive on a desiccated planet while the .001 percent live it up on Elysium, the ultimate gated community - an orbiting satellite replete with mansions and rolling lawns. ...



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