Elysium

This movie was made by the same fellow that did District 9, that was amazing, Neill Blomkamp, a South African.  This film was political in that it centered on health care and the inequality of its distribution.

The story is about a guy, Matt Damon's character, that gets a lethal dose of radiation at his scary industrial job, and does whatever he can to save himself, but he also learns that an old flame's child is sick too, and works to save her as well.  Damon uses an exoskeleton to help his deteriorating body.

What I really enjoyed about District 9 was the way the interesting world was revealed to us.  I wish that there was more of that in Elysium.  There was a scene where Matt Damon's character goes to his parole officer and that parole officer is a robot.  That is the kind of interesting stuff I would like to have seen more of.  I look forward to more movies from Blomkamp.  

Also the film locations that Blomkamp uses are very unique, Soweto for District 9 and I think a dump outside of Mexico City for Elysium.  He should do some filming in Detroit before they clean it up too much.

I think that this movie was a little too Hollywood in the end, the little girl gets cured.

The Wolverine

I have to admit that whenever I think of wolverine I think of the movie Red Dawn when the Ruskies invade 'Murica, and the high school mascot of the high school kids is a wolverine.  There is that scene where they all yell Wolverine.

But this is a movie about mutant wolverine that can't seem to croak and is indestructible.  In this movie a Japanese fellow, that Wolverine had previously saved during double u double u 2, that same fellow Wolverine saved from the atom bomb, tries to steal Wolverines powers and kill Wolverine in the process.

Of course there is some devious mutant that poisons Wolverine, and everyone seems to have guns in Japan, as if Japan were 'Murica with gun shops on every street corner, "I'll take some sushi, a pack of cigs, and an Uzi to go please."

This ends in typical Hollywood fashion, bad guy dead, good guy alive and with all kinds of girls fawning over him as he heads off into the sunset in a fancy jet.  Yeah!  Wolverine!

But don't leave yet, they give you a hint about the next Xman flick.