So much average

I'll tell you why so serious

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

DONT WATCH THIS MOVIE YOUR MONEY WILL NO RETURN. The story is awful the script is horrible

I have never left a review for a movie before, but the fact that this movie has 5/10 ratings is beyond me. I am not going to go into details of story lines, character progression, and cinematography. This is a warning. Do not watch this movie. It's not "so bad it's funny", it's not "so bad it's good", it's just simply so bad. Save yourself a few hours of boredom and misery and don't watch this movie. Apart from being so ridiculously boring, the movie's portrayal of the Vietnamese character is offensive. She's basically a caricature of what a western person thinks is Vietnamese. I'm only writing this review because I think it would be inhumane to allow someone else to watch this garbage.

A *very* disappointing film, featuring my favorite Martian. I now can certainly see why it bombed so badly at the box office! I was hoping for something fun like Jurassic Park with cool special effects and some thoughtful messages. Instead I got 2 films jammed together into an overly long mess, with heavy messages that turned this into a real downer.Part I is very promising: the invention of downsizing, creation of the small world, the conversion process. Unfortunately, the minute he enters the small world in Part II he is miserable, so we never get to experience the wonders of being small. Instead, we get class warfare, with all the "rich" portrayed as thoughtless consumers who do nothing but leisure activities, attend parties to drink/take drugs, and exploit the poor but noble working class. Interesting how there is no explanation how an entire slum is packed with people in an entirely new world that has only existed for 10 years. It was so heavy-handed the only thing missing was a scene of the desperate underclass selling their organs to survive.In Part III, we suddenly have a tacked-on road trip to visit a cult. Besides moving very, very slowly, the only purpose for this part appeared to be to hammer the climate change message into our heads with a sledgehammer. I kept waiting for Al Gore to appear in a cameo! At the end, our 'hero' ends up right were he was at the end of Part II! They could have entirely cut out Part III and it would have had the same basic message. Will watch carefully to avoid future films from this director.

Norwegian scientist Dr. Jørgen Asbjørnsen invents miniaturization of human beings, shrinking people down to five inches. It is sold as environmental altruism and a way to live big on a budget. Married couple Paul (Matt Damon) and Audrey Safranek (Kristen Wiig) decides to do the downsizing but at the last minute, Audrey backs out and the couple eventually divorce. Paul is bitter and alone. He befriends his noisy neighbor Euro-playboy Dusan Mirkovic (Christoph Waltz) and Dusan's maid Ngoc Lan Tran, famed Vietnamese activist who was forcibly downsized.Ngoc Lan Tran says something compelling about facing death in the ending. That's the big point of the movie. Director Alexander Payne certainly takes his sweet time. There's no reason for this movie to be more than two hours. The point can be streamlined without Audrey. The first half is really bloated. Matt Damon's everyman does not help. His lack of drive infects the movie. He makes the first half aimless. It should have been a fifteen minute introduction and then get to Dusan and Tran quickly. She's a breath of fresh air and actually gets a few laughs. The Norway part is lacking something and the ending premise is also lacking. I would rather they do something with the slums outside the dome for the ending. There is already some rooting interest built up with the inhabitants of the slums. Going to Norway is a distracting side trip. There is a lot of world building that I question in this movie. There is a compelling movie inside this bloated film somewhere and I enjoyed that movie.