Bloomkamp, for good and for bad

Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2019)

This movie overall is good, it's well made and the action is fine, Matt Damon works in the title role, although it feels just like he is playing Jason Bourne again, but I'm not complaining about that.
The problems stem from the fact that first the world on earth doesn't work at all, since it is supposed to be 150 years in the future, but looks more like Nigeria today, with some future tech sprinkled in there, but it's clearly not enough to make it believable.
The other, more major problem in my eyes, is the fact that Blomkamp can only deal in very blunt topics that lack all subtlety, he is extremely placative and that really brings this movie and also District 9 for example, down. In District 9 it was how terrible we treat refugees and here it is how terrible the 1% are, get it? Get it? Really? Do you get it, or do you need me to make it more obvious for you? Is what Blomkamp is probably thinking during the filming of his movies and it really annoys me while watching said movies.
Also the ending is just action schlock that leads to a more or less happy ending, which might be necessary for a big poduction like this, but really doesn't help the movie.