In 2154, a minute number of people reside on a luxurious space
habitat called Elysium and the vast majority on an overpopulated and
devastated Earth.
While those on Earth are policed by ruthless robots, Elysium's citizens
live in absolute comfort and regularly use medical devices called
Med-Bays to cure any disease and injury.
Max Da Costa (Matt Damon), a former car thief and parolee, lives in the ruins of Los Angeles and works at an assembly line for Armadyne Corp, a company which supplies Elysian weaponry as well as the robots which police Earth. After being accidentally lethally poisoned by radiation, Max has only five days to live. Meanwhile, when a caravan of illegal immigrants from Earth attempts to reach Elysium and its Med-Bays, Elysian Secretary of Defense Delacourt (Jodie Foster) orders a sleeper agent, Kruger (Sharlto Copley), to shoot down the shuttles. Elysian President Patel (Faran Tahir) reprimands her and dismisses Kruger from service. Delacourt, vowing to protect Elysium and her own power, bargains with Armadyne CEO John Carlyle (William Fichtner) to create a program that can override Elysium's computer core to give her the Presidency. Carlyle neurally stores the program for transport to Elysium and encrypts it with a lethal denial system.
Max knows his only chance for survival is a Med-Bay and seeks help from a smuggler named Spider (Wagner Moura) and his friend Julio (Diego Luna). Spider agrees to get Max to Elysium if he steals financial information from Carlyle. To assist him, Spider's doctors link a powered exoskeleton to Max. Max, Julio and a team of Spider's men intercept Carlyle's ship, and Max downloads the program to his suit's neural implant, but realises that the encryption makes it unusable. Delacourt secretly deploys Kruger to rescue Carlyle and recover the program. In the ensuing firefight, Carlyle and most of Max's allies are killed, while Max himself is wounded. He heads to the house of his childhood friend Frey (Alice Braga), whose daughter Matilda has leukemia. Frey begs Max to take Matilda to Elysium so that she can be cured, but Max refuses. While Kruger hunts for Max, Delacourt orders an airspace lockdown over Los Angeles to buy enough time to recover Carlyle's program.
When Max returns to Spider, they realize that the program can be used to make all Earth residents Elysian citizens, but they can't leave the surface of Earth due to the lockdown. Instead, Max bargains with Kruger to be taken to Elysium, not knowing Kruger has Frey and Matilda held hostage. During the journey, a fight ensues and Kruger is horribly injured by a grenade blast. After Kruger's ship crashes on Elysium, Max, Frey and Matilda are arrested and taken to Delacourt, who orders the download of the program despite the fact that it will kill Max.
Having been healed by a Med-Bay, Kruger kills Delacourt after being chastised for his recklessness and plans to steal the program for himself to rule Elysium, and his men kill most of Elysium's leaders. Meanwhile, having escaped his confinement, Max realises that Med-Bays only work for Elysian citizens and resolves to use Carlyle's program to give everyone citizenship. He heads for Elysium's core but is ambushed by Kruger, now donning an exoskeleton superior to Max's. In the ensuing fight, Max manages to disable Kruger's suit but Kruger tethers himself to Max's suit and arms a grenade with the intent of killing both of them. Max rips off the tether and hurls Kruger over a ledge to his death.
Spider and Max reach Elysium's computer core where Spider realizes that the program's activation will kill Max. Max personally activates the program, having spoken a last time with Frey via radio. As Max dies, Elysium's computer core reboots and registers every Earth resident as an Elysian citizen. President Patel arrives with security but the robots refuse to arrest Spider whom they recognise as an Elysian. Matilda is cured by a Med-Bay, and Elysium's computer dispatches a fleet of medical ships to Earth to begin medical treatment of the new Elysian citizens.
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Max Da Costa (Matt Damon), a former car thief and parolee, lives in the ruins of Los Angeles and works at an assembly line for Armadyne Corp, a company which supplies Elysian weaponry as well as the robots which police Earth. After being accidentally lethally poisoned by radiation, Max has only five days to live. Meanwhile, when a caravan of illegal immigrants from Earth attempts to reach Elysium and its Med-Bays, Elysian Secretary of Defense Delacourt (Jodie Foster) orders a sleeper agent, Kruger (Sharlto Copley), to shoot down the shuttles. Elysian President Patel (Faran Tahir) reprimands her and dismisses Kruger from service. Delacourt, vowing to protect Elysium and her own power, bargains with Armadyne CEO John Carlyle (William Fichtner) to create a program that can override Elysium's computer core to give her the Presidency. Carlyle neurally stores the program for transport to Elysium and encrypts it with a lethal denial system.
Max knows his only chance for survival is a Med-Bay and seeks help from a smuggler named Spider (Wagner Moura) and his friend Julio (Diego Luna). Spider agrees to get Max to Elysium if he steals financial information from Carlyle. To assist him, Spider's doctors link a powered exoskeleton to Max. Max, Julio and a team of Spider's men intercept Carlyle's ship, and Max downloads the program to his suit's neural implant, but realises that the encryption makes it unusable. Delacourt secretly deploys Kruger to rescue Carlyle and recover the program. In the ensuing firefight, Carlyle and most of Max's allies are killed, while Max himself is wounded. He heads to the house of his childhood friend Frey (Alice Braga), whose daughter Matilda has leukemia. Frey begs Max to take Matilda to Elysium so that she can be cured, but Max refuses. While Kruger hunts for Max, Delacourt orders an airspace lockdown over Los Angeles to buy enough time to recover Carlyle's program.
When Max returns to Spider, they realize that the program can be used to make all Earth residents Elysian citizens, but they can't leave the surface of Earth due to the lockdown. Instead, Max bargains with Kruger to be taken to Elysium, not knowing Kruger has Frey and Matilda held hostage. During the journey, a fight ensues and Kruger is horribly injured by a grenade blast. After Kruger's ship crashes on Elysium, Max, Frey and Matilda are arrested and taken to Delacourt, who orders the download of the program despite the fact that it will kill Max.
Having been healed by a Med-Bay, Kruger kills Delacourt after being chastised for his recklessness and plans to steal the program for himself to rule Elysium, and his men kill most of Elysium's leaders. Meanwhile, having escaped his confinement, Max realises that Med-Bays only work for Elysian citizens and resolves to use Carlyle's program to give everyone citizenship. He heads for Elysium's core but is ambushed by Kruger, now donning an exoskeleton superior to Max's. In the ensuing fight, Max manages to disable Kruger's suit but Kruger tethers himself to Max's suit and arms a grenade with the intent of killing both of them. Max rips off the tether and hurls Kruger over a ledge to his death.
Spider and Max reach Elysium's computer core where Spider realizes that the program's activation will kill Max. Max personally activates the program, having spoken a last time with Frey via radio. As Max dies, Elysium's computer core reboots and registers every Earth resident as an Elysian citizen. President Patel arrives with security but the robots refuse to arrest Spider whom they recognise as an Elysian. Matilda is cured by a Med-Bay, and Elysium's computer dispatches a fleet of medical ships to Earth to begin medical treatment of the new Elysian citizens.
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