The Playlist: Robots, Spaceships & Jodie Foster: The Good, The Bad, And The Wildly Uneven Of 'Elysium'

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Robots, Spaceships & Jodie Foster: The Good, The Bad, And The Wildly Uneven Of 'Elysium' Aug 12th 2013, 20:37, by Drew Taylor Few summer movies were as highly anticipated as "Elysium" in 2013 and few were as divisive. Perhaps it was because the promise of something more meatier on the bone than the average occasionally entertaining, but often disposable summer blockbuster. "Elysium" could have hit our sweet spot: brains, heart and brawn, and not just spectacle and scale. And while the film topped the box office this past weekend with more than $30 million (a decent number, but not a great one considering its cost), it was less successful critically, earning a somewhat limp 60 on aggregator Metacritic and more than a few seesawing hands from the nation's top critics (you can read our review here). Set in the not-too-distant future, "Elysium" tells a zeitgeisty relevant dystopian tale of a world with have and have nots; Earth is overpopulated, diseased, polluted and resource drained so the rich have moved up to their gated community in the sky while the 99% are stuck down on the garbage can that is the... Media files: elysium.jpg (image/jpeg)

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