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At last, a good big film. The legacy of the summer, thus far, has been jetsam: moribund movies that lie there, bloated and beached, gasping to break even. But here is something angry and alive: “Elysium,” written and directed by Neill Blomkamp, and set in the year 2154. The title refers to a space station, in the shape of a wheel, orbiting just beyond the confines of Earth—less than twenty minutes away, by shuttle. Look up, and you see it hanging in the sky, shiny and unreachable, like a second moon or a vast Mercedes-Benz badge: a fitting likeness, because Elysium is solely for the rich. They dwell in the wheel’s enormous rim, breathing an unfouled atmosphere and sipping drinks beside their private pools.

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Watch Elysium Online Free Down below, for the rest of mankind, the news is glum. Our planet is on the dust heap. Everything is parched and frenzied, not least in Los Angeles, where Max (Matt Damon), having done time for numerous crimes, is going straight; he has a factory job, helping to build the clanking, hostile robots that serve as the city’s cops. After an accident at work, he finds himself with radiation sickness and five days to live. At this point, most of us would quit, but not Max. The casting is spot-on here, because something in Damon—in the unsoothable anxiety of his gaze, and in the squat, wrestler’s physique that seems less buffed than primed to explode—suggests an internal drive of high intensity. Projecting not the will to power but a tireless lust to live, he remains likable, and oddly bashful—a regular guy who happens to belong in extremis. Cagney would approve, I reckon, though he never forgot how comic such hardihood can be, and, watching “Elysium,” he would warn Damon not to lose the smile.