Review of Downsizing (2017) by Prosperian — 05 Jan 2018

This might possibly be the worst movie ever made. Matt Damon and company take a very interesting subject in the genre of miniturization and somehow disconnect it from any coherent exploration. Thank goodness Isaac Asimov is not alive to see this.

Much like Damon's Ellysium, this film is a left wing activist fueled attempt at some kind of contorted allegory. At least with Ellysium, you knew which political topics you were paying money to have shoved down your throats in lieu of being entertained.

With this film I have no idea which topics that the producers are trying to propagandize. Are you trying to tell us we consume too much? Are we melting the planets ice caps? Are we taking advantage of the poor even in utopia? Are we consumed with personal greed? Do we all need to purify ourselves of all these sins by having sex with a Vietnamese activist amputee? Pick one please.

The only thing more astounding than how this film got funding is that any of the so called professional critics gave this thing more than a 10 on the scale of 100. I saw a critic who called the movie "God is not Dead", "filth that should be banned" - and yet the fact you give Downsizing even a morsel of credibility is astounding.

Here is my request- please Matt Damon, sit down like Steve Martin's character in the Jerk, and write us all $10.50 refund checks to atone for the sin of making this impotent and uninteresting garbage.

At least the opti-grab in that film had some plausible use. Too bad your film doesn't.