Thumbs Down: Way Down

Rating: 1/10 (30 November 2019)

Waisted part of my life watching this horrible, pretentious, unrealistic, silly and overrated African narm. There is no harmony in Africa because everyone is different. There's more diversity among Homo sapiens in Africa than any place on earth. Just because you have black skin makes you my brother is an idealistic bunch of hogwash. Anyway, the CGI stunk, the characters were one demential and the production design laughable in its over use of oddball African motifs. Also, this film actually thinks its audience will believe there was a futurist modern African country with a hyper sonic subway and super technology around when the Belgian Congo was a systemic holocaust. Why didn't this goofy nation, light years ahead of the world, stop that genocide? I'll answer my own question: because the writer, producers and director didn't have an iota's worth of knowledge of the history of Africa nor did they bothered to do any research. The antagonist of the film was a conglomeration of hip hop gangsta clichés. The only believable character was the bewildered white dude going through the motions of acting. Hollywood has been the worst perpetuator of stereotyping in the history of this world. Anyone who liked this film and praised it was either phony PC or lacking in taste or both. This film denigrates African culture because African culture is complex and is not just the simplistic Western hodgepodge of tropes this film is.