Revolting

Rating: 4/10 (29 September 2014)

Unimaginative crack at how capitalism tends toward tyranny. So you get gang-bangers v billionaires.
Almost every scene raises the question, "But how come ...?"
Why human workers when there are robots? If there's enough energy supply for a giant space station, why isn't there wealth on earth, where the supply comes from? Maybe it's like Saudi Arabia. Why don't the billionaires all have the defensive force-field the mercenary have? Why that Sid Ifrikin iksint?
I'm sympathetic to the message, because we have a version of this story developing now with the adolescent politics of right-libertarianism: I can do it on my own and I don't need anyone else - because I'm worth it (especially when I rig the political and monetary system in my favour).
There are much better ways of telling the story.
And Jodie Foster's take on Christine Lagarde is not magnifique.