The film is at its best when it’s showing all the nuts and bolts of the process of downsizing someone and this extended sequence is genuinely excellent. It’s a great example of something that has a few great moments but at the end of the day swaps any mainstream appeal it might have had for basic easy to decode symbolism and metaphors that won’t stick long in the mind of the type of viewers that would be looking for this style of entertainment. Downsizing is an incredibly frustrating film. The short answer to this question is unfortunately, no. Was I right I think this might be good and be the first Alexander Payne film I can truly recommend to people. That being said I still went into the screaming with some hope based on the huge promise of the initial trailer. However, the film had been pretty much forgotten about (outside of ancillary Awards nominations) by the time it finally got around the being screened for a more general audience and it’s reviews on IMDb got a lot more mixed to negative. ” The trailer also hinted at a wider mythology among the world of tiny people they gained my interest. The initial reviews that came out of its festival premiere were very strong and when the first trailer dropped I found the premise very engaging (despite it basically being “honey we shrunk Matt Damon. My general indifference towards him as a filmmaker looked like it might be changing with Downsizing. It wasn’t bad but the only thing that is sticks in my memory about it several years later is the performance of June Squibb (who was Oscar nominated herself.) Payne is one of those filmmakers who’s work always tends to be up for awards consideration of some variety. The Descendants was the most overrated Oscar film of the Year it came out (despite having one really funny line in it where George Clooney tells the audience “paradise can go itself” and winning Dean Pelton from Community and Oscar (aka Jim Rash) for co writing the screenplay. I have seen a few of Payne’s films in the past and I’ve found them not necessarily bad but decidedly unremarkable. This was me going in for an early screening (if you go by UK release date) of Alexander Payne’s, Downsizing. Have you ever gone into a piece of media thinking it could very easily go either way in terms of quality.
The film is now in UK cinemas at the time of publishing but all of this review still stands. This review was written based on a UK preview screening a few weeks ago.
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