Not that good

Rating: 4/10 (19 January 2014)

I watched this movie last night and was pretty disappointed. Overall it's a depressing movie, not only in story but also overall execution. Matt Damon is a parolee who is clinging to the only job he can get after a life of being one of the worlds most legendary car thieves. He doesn't seem to have morals until very end of the movie, yet the transformation from a person who only cares about themselves (who tells a little girl with cancer that you can't help?) to someone who is willing to die for humanity, only because he's going to die anyway. There really wasn't much sympathy for his character and I really could've cared less if Kruger got the best of him. Off to Kruger, a pretty enjoyable villain, very creepy and seemed to play the role well. The story overall was pretty ridiculous, from Damon entering a radiation chamber to cling to a horrible job instead of just going back to crime (it's not like there was hope on earth anyway), to Jodie Foster convincing someone smarter than her to make her president in exchange for a military contract, when he could've just made himself president. The one thing I did enjoy was the very well done gore, which was over the top at times but they did a great job with the effects, especially when installing the exosuit and when Krugers face got blown off. Overall, it's nowhere close to as good as District 9. The story and political message the movie sends is odd. It's basically tellin us we should open up our borders and let everyone else on the planet into the United States. That just isn't possible.