30 MIN IN: Hey, conceptually, this is pretty good! Seems like a broad take on a smart sci-fi satire idea, but still not sure why people hate this!

60 MIN IN: ... oh

120 MIN IN: ......................................... oh.

I usually avoid watching screeners but I made the poor decision to watch this film on a DVD screener. It was a mistake. Alexander Payne always makes great films. Even his worst films are better than most. So I'm a moron for not seeing this on the big screen. One of my faves of the year.

Hi, my name is Griffin Newman and I like the movie DOWNSIZING. By the time you are reading this I am probably dead, having been brutally murdered by the entirety of Film Twitter.

a concept that would have been much better in the hands of yorgos lanthimos or even someone like charlie mcdowell. i was pretty intrigued while i was watching it, but it left a bad taste in my mouth afterwards. my original review was just gonna be “???” which pretty much sums it up

in this movie people go from BIG to ˢᵐᵃˡˡ and incidentally this movie also goes from GOOD AND INTERESTING to ᵖʳᵉᵗᵗʸ ᵇᵃᵈ

So much potential..... It's just so unfocused and muddled with useless scenes and moments. It takes about an hour for the first act to complete.

1.5/5 

Skip it

I was very very excited to see this film but it started to become more and more boring from the 1/3.

In general, here goes what I liked about Downsizing:
- the concept and its huge potential as a satire;
- the visual aesthetic;
- its light-ish tone, for the most part;

Things I absolutely disliked about it:
- it has soo many dull and pointless parts, I think they probably could've cut half an hour;
- a considerable amount of the scenes intended to be funny, mostly as the film progresses, just don't work;
- they could've played more with the small people/regular sized objects proportions than they did

I give one star for the "8 type of fucks" joke.

Also this movie is: ???

Da stimmt ja hinten und vorne nichts...

The initial trailer and the potential made this a film i was going to keep my eye on. Not long before release a different trailer showed the film in a different light and i should have stopped there. Great potential but some many missed opportunities. The main selling point is almost completely forgotten half way through the film and I was left wondering what the actual plot was.

This sort of film always lets me down the most. The “concept” movie. The film’s that are formed out of a simple idea of “what if” and they write a script around it. A majority of these, for example: Ruby Sparks, Colossal, Her, etc... (the latter I adore except for the weak ending) have this flaw. And it kills me. These are the sorts of movies that would be perfect if they got a decent writer on their hands. But they don’t. And we get more and more films like downsizing in which the exposition is the most interesting part of the film.

An OK film with a very interesting plot turns out to be a journey for one man as he finds himself and the one(s) he's been looking for. Alexander Payne always makes films worth watching, but I felt he could have done more with this story and these characters.