Do not want...

Rating: 1/10 (25 August 2013)

I do not believe the Randian principles that this movie was based on- I do not believe that if you remove the very rich that the society that remains would be one of crime and poverty. I believe, if the rich somehow figured out a way to overcome all scientific barriers to building/living on a space station (which I assume would include messaging technology that looks better than Sprint text messages circa 2002), a new caste system would emerge (probably with those lauding authoritarianism on top) and political dissidents looking to dismantle the system (not car thieves) would be par for course within that new society (assuming that the rich are on a space station not the gated community across the train tracks). This would have been a more interesting movie.
I did not expect anything from this movie- it usually keeps me from being disappointed. I was not disappointed-- I was induced to anger by shallow characters whose motivation consists of only "My sick daughter!" or "I want power" or "I'm envious of that perfect life in the sky- and now my sick butt has motivated me to get there." If I don't care about the characters at all- how am I supposed to care what happens in the *very long fight scenes*? These shallow characters were highlighted by the atrocious dialogue. Characters shift within their actions for no understandable reason.
I'm a liberal and this movie felt like propaganda to ME. It was ham handed about health care, wealth inequality, racial inequality- all legitimate concerns but so poorly illustrated that it became a mockery of itself and those concerns. If they were trying to make something for low information voters- they might have started with characters that evoked any emotion (at all) from the audience.