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http://www.scene-stealers.com/reviews/video-reviews/elysium-movie-review/ starts at :52 after the cops chase the cows around... Elysium is the first film in four years from writer/director Neill Blomkamp, who stunned Hollywood in 2009 with District 9, a startling sci-fi allegory about apartheid and its corrosive nature that featured a race of stranded aliens being treated like second-class citizens in South Africa. His follow-up again tackles class warfare and features a host of other political hot-button parallels from immigration and healthcare reform to drone strikes, but it's less likely to receive the kind of critical praise District 9 did because it otherwise follows a more traditional Hollywood path. That doesn't mean that it isn't deliciously entertaining. It's 2154 and the Earth is overcrowded and virtually uninhabitable — essentially one big slum. Matt Damon plays Max, a Los Angeles factory worker with a seedy past who is trying to leave behind a life of stealing cars and fly straight. As a child, he made a pact with his best friend Frey (Alice Braga), a girl that lives in the same orphanage, that one day he will take her to Elysium — the giant terrarium space station floating above the Earth (by spacecraft) that the only the wealthiest people have migrated to.