"Downsizing" with Matt Damon
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389072/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Saw this one on either Hulu or Netflix, forget which, as it was a totally forgettable movie.
Not to spoil, but - you're warned.
This movie was dead-ass boring! It took 20 minutes to get going, and then went slowly nowhere. The actors were cardboard standups. The plot was overwrought and totally cliché.
A Norwegian scientist finds a way to shrink humans and other organic life down to 5" or so in height. The catch? Apparently hair and such doesn't reduce, so total body shaving is in order. All dental fillings, crowns, etc., are taken out. Should a crown or such be overlooked, as the movie says, it will cause the Shrinkee's head to explode as the head shrinks, and the crown doesn't. Apparently, all the shrunken animals had to be shaved, too. Imagine shaving a cow or a sheep? Never mind the ethical consequences of forcing your children to be shrunken, when of over 7 billion people, only 3 million choose to have it done.
Of course, the bad guy nations use it as punishment, too, adding a worthless subplot, but introducing the love interest of Matt Damon's hollow character. Oh, and he and his wife, far in debt, find their $125k worth will be converted to $12.5 million upon shrinking and being moved to the Shrinkee community. Read: Prison for tiny folks. And should a Shrinkee have the right to vote, etc.? Such is the ongoing dribble of this debacle.
And, of course, near the middle, we find that the Shrinkee community soon develops the same problems that shrinking was supposed to solve: Us and Them. Rich and Poor. The 1% soon take over and the community ends up with slums, etc. And to make things ever better, we have the two illicit characters who take in our would-be hero. Udo Kier is one of them, and I can't STAND him. His character in this flick makes you want to vomit.
Did I mention that his wife left him? They agreed to shrink, but men and women have separate units. She backs out without him knowing. He wakes up to find that she's divorcing him, and wanting like $6 million of his assets which aren't worth that yet. So he's a sudden Have-Not in Shrinkee Town, and living on the skids. This, after he's taunted with a fine mansion that is the dream, etc., only to have it all ripped away. So he's a working stiff again with nothing.
Aaaaand then we have the planetary disaster coming. Humanity is going to go extinct. The original Shrinkee colony in Norway has a secret - they've had the normal sized humans make an underground environment for them, 1.6 km down. They don't tell anyone why. They're all going down there for about 8k years to ride out the disaster, and repopulate the Earth with tiny humans later. Bla bla bla.
As I said, dead boring. Stupid plot, and one cliché after another. Don't waste your time.
