Elysium 4K 2013 Ultra HD 2160p

2154, humanity dirtied the planet and finally split into two societies - the poor live on Earth, ruining their health for a pittance, and the rich moved to the Elysium space station, where there is everything, including advanced medical capsules that diagnose and heal any disease. Since childhood, Max (Damon) dreamed of getting to Elysium, and now he has a significant incentive - at work he receives a lethal dose of radiation that will kill him in five days. The only chance to survive is to get to one of the miracle capsules on Elysium ...

Elysium 4K Review
2154, humanity dirtied the planet and finally split into two societies - the poor live on Earth, ruining their health for pennies, and the rich moved to the Elysium space station, where there is everything, including advanced medical capsules that diagnose and heal any disease. Since childhood, Max (Damon) dreamed of getting to Elysium, and now he has a significant incentive - at work he receives a lethal dose of radiation that will kill him in five days. The only chance to survive is to get to one of the miracle capsules on Elysium ...

Filming took place back in 2011, initially "Elysium" was supposed to be released at the end of 2012
Newcomer Neil Blomkamp's incredible box office success in District 9 caught many by surprise, but the film was worth every dollar of the 210 million it earned worldwide. A technically honed fantastic action movie with a charming central actor, a powerful humanistic message and, most importantly, made with a soul could not fail to find a response in the hearts of the audience. We had to wait four years for the second creation of Blomkamp, ​​but whether it was worth it is difficult to answer straight away.

Initially, Eminem was offered the main role in the film, but he insisted that the shooting take place in Detroit
If you start with a good start, Elysium is undoubtedly bigger, more effective and more thorough than District - this is a great Hollywood fiction with an excellently designed world, high-quality special effects and a world-class star in the lead role. Honestly, after watching it, you ask yourself: why are the masters of blockbuster building managing to spend more than 200 million dollars, if Blomkamp was able to shoot such a spectacular movie full of action and special effects for only 90 million? Both the humanistic message and the soul, which ensured the cult status of "District No. 9", have not gone anywhere. The struggle of small but strong-minded people for dreams, the right to happiness, and life itself still occupy a central place in Elysium.

But this also leads to a problem: alas, for Blomkamp this is just a repetition of what he has gone through, told at a new technical level, but does not offer anything fundamentally new, a clean performance after the dress rehearsal (which was already brilliant). Yes, he expanded the world, deepened the story, added halftones where they were lacking, introduced several vivid characters, but he followed a path that was once explored. Which in itself is not so bad (after all, "Desperate" remained in history, and "Musician" is now remembered only by purists), but it can still disappoint those who, after "District No. 9", saw Blomkamp as an uncompromising reformer of the genre.

Interestingly, the most winning role is again with Sharlto Copely - his disgusting mercenary Kruger easily removes everyone who was not lucky enough to get into the same frame with him. There are no authorities for him - be it the noble charismatic Matt Damon or the Oscar winner Jodie Foster, Copeley once again shows the frantic energy of young Robert De Niro. But his acting talent seems to be much more diverse: it's hard to believe that the downtrodden "Comrade Novoseltsev" from "District No. 9", the wicked merry fellow from "Team A" and the ruthless killer from "Elysium" are one and the same person.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English, English SDH, Bulgarian, Croatian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Hebrew, Greek, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian, Malay, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish.