Movie Review: Elysium

Wow that was bad. Good effects sometimes, but the plot had more holes and logical failings than Hillary's defense of the US embassy in Benghazi. It was racist, hateful, nonsense. I'm rather surprised it wasn't picketed, but who cares if nobody sees it? I won't bother to list all the failures, but there were so many it was most of the film.

1. Why did they irradiate robots inside a metal door with glass windows?
2. Why don't the shuttles burn up when they go from the space station which seems to hang directly over LA rather than orbit?
3. If you can heal people in minutes with magic beds, why not have those in hospitals?
4. Who is growing food?
5. Why do the rich speak French but the poor speak Spanish?
6. If you can build fancy robots, you can build robots to do things like farm and operate space weapons.
7. Why did they fire missiles from the GROUND at space shuttles that were heading for a habitat nearly in ORBIT, creating clouds of debris headed for the station like shotgun blasts?
8. If you have magical bullet shields, why don't the robots have them?
9. Why are the robots shaped like people? Spiders and other vehicles are more effective and terrifying.
10. Where's the roof of the space habitat to keep the air in? What's the point of a hub that space vehicles never seem to land in?
11. What do the space people eat? There's no farms or greenhouses on the space station. Just parks.
12. Why isn't the space station further up, away from Keppler debris in LEO?
13. Did the author of this crap know any science at all or were they just a Paul Verhoeven fan and that was enough?
14. After the space hospitals land, how many of the teeming billions get treated before their power runs out? Not billions? Thousands? What about everybody else? So the hospitals work a few hours, maybe even a day and then die from power blackout. Now what?
15. It's been a 140 years. Why isn't there massive green across the Sahara and other deserts from desalination plants and major irrigation projects to feed the teeming billions? Dust and flying paper debris doesn't feed overpopulation. Where's the lights of 10 billion people's homes on the night side?

Those are some of the more glaring errors. Maybe its because I've been writing scifi longer than this director seems to have been alive. Funny how the Socialist Message of the film is so racist I have to wonder if that was the point, why it got funded? Considering that The Bourne Exoskeleton would be a better name for this 90 minute commercial for Obamacare, which unfortunately points out that good medical care is a la carte in space and the rest get socialized medicine on the ground that kills you, was this an unintentional snark at the results of socialized medicine? And was this the original ending? Whatever the case, it was crap. Avoid it.