So I watched this movie a few times, and my opinion on this movie has never changed. This could have been a great movie, but they made a few fundamental errors in its creation.
First they made the movie not only bilingual but like 4 or 5 different languages, and I don't mean IN 5 languages, I mean throughout the movie you see english, and spanish, and french and 2 others. And Spanish seems to take up a good chunk of the movie. There was absolutely no reason to do that. It just made the movie horrible to try and watch unless there are subtitles.
Second, the general feeling in this movie is tragic, to bad, to worse. At no point are you rooting for someone because the state of affairs is so bad already that you just feel when the movie finishes it's a relief it's over. You don't feel better about anything, because the effect the director was looking for was you would sympathize with the plight of the poor people and feel better when they overthrow the rich. That's not how you feel at all. The end of this story feels like it's a beginning of another one but you're too exhausted from this one to ever want to see it.
And the final nail in the coffin of this movie is deranged upgrades, it's one thing if you made them look sloppy but okish, but it just makes them look chop shop bad. The whole time the only thing I can think of is "when Matt Damon dies in this it will feel better for all of us than watching him walk around with metal sticking out of every bone."
4/10 there was a good idea somewhere in there, but it was completely overshadowed by unforgivable mistakes in the direction and execution of this movie.
First they made the movie not only bilingual but like 4 or 5 different languages, and I don't mean IN 5 languages, I mean throughout the movie you see english, and spanish, and french and 2 others. And Spanish seems to take up a good chunk of the movie. There was absolutely no reason to do that. It just made the movie horrible to try and watch unless there are subtitles.
Second, the general feeling in this movie is tragic, to bad, to worse. At no point are you rooting for someone because the state of affairs is so bad already that you just feel when the movie finishes it's a relief it's over. You don't feel better about anything, because the effect the director was looking for was you would sympathize with the plight of the poor people and feel better when they overthrow the rich. That's not how you feel at all. The end of this story feels like it's a beginning of another one but you're too exhausted from this one to ever want to see it.
And the final nail in the coffin of this movie is deranged upgrades, it's one thing if you made them look sloppy but okish, but it just makes them look chop shop bad. The whole time the only thing I can think of is "when Matt Damon dies in this it will feel better for all of us than watching him walk around with metal sticking out of every bone."
4/10 there was a good idea somewhere in there, but it was completely overshadowed by unforgivable mistakes in the direction and execution of this movie.