Sabertooth Reviews - Downsizing (Patreon)

So this is a new thing that I'm trying out, something to help bring more to my patreon for the enjoyment of my followers.  If you enjoy this let me know and I'll keep doing more of them, if you don't then let me know as well so that I can stop.  :P  Also there will be potential mild spoilers, just so you are aware.

So, lets start with the movie I just went and saw today, the Matt Damon movie Downsizing.  The premise of the movie is a kooky comedy where Matt Damon and his wife go through the process of downsizing in order to live a better life free of debt.  Along the way he finds out all the zany complications that comes with only being five inches tall while the rest of the world is normal sized.

...at least, that was the movie I thought I was going to.

*Again warning, spoilers ahead*

The movie I got was a two-hour long movie that felt like it didn't quite know what it wanted to be.  It started with the makings of a fish out of water comedy, then turned into a down on his luck story, which then turned into a dramatic comedy about the tragedy of different economic classes which then turned into an... end of the world drama?  Seriously, the hell? 

In essence each time it switched from one theme to another it felt like it had restarted the movie, which meant that it never really went anywhere in particular.  It spent so long setting things up that it never got to the point of the movie itself.  All throughout it hinted at these possible roads the movie could go down, then finally at the end what we end up with is a lackluster love story that we had maybe all of ten minutes to get invested in.  I can only imagine that a team of writers all got the same concept and then wrote different scripts that no one communicated with the others about, then cobbled them all together with a very lazy time passes transition.

All in all it was a movie with a neat concept that they all but abandon half-way through.  It got to the point where if you had someone could come in partially through you wouldn't have even known that they had become tiny versions of themselves when that's LITERALLY THE WHOLE DRAW OF THE MOVIE.  Even Matt Damon couldn't save this one, and he's been saved himself so many times you think he'd know how to do it by now.  This movie also wasted the talents of such actors as Neil Patrick Harris, Christoph Waltz, and a few hours in order to pair up Matt Damon with a lukewarm love interest that wasn't very good.

So in short I'd recommend that you downsize your movie collection by not seeing this one, because with a plot that small it's something hard to miss.