It’s a good film, the premise is enough to make it good honestly. As films go, it could be better on all fronts, but they got their message across: That billionaires control all this shit extremely thoroughly, to the point that a society based on this mode of currency can never get better. Because as soon as living standards might improve for anyone, prices rise across the board to keep people where they are. And that poor people are deliberately kept devoid of choice so as to keep them poor, no matter how hard they work.
It occupies the exact same category as ‘Elysium’ in my mind - cool setting with an amazing and insightful premise. And an… average execution. I can enjoy a film like that better than the other way around.
I mean spoilers but
they eventually rob whole banks and realise that’s not enough close to enough, that the issue is systemic. The writing then fails a bit because they still think the answer is just one big heist away.
It’s a good film, the premise is enough to make it good honestly. As films go, it could be better on all fronts, but they got their message across: That billionaires control all this shit extremely thoroughly, to the point that a society based on this mode of currency can never get better. Because as soon as living standards might improve for anyone, prices rise across the board to keep people where they are. And that poor people are deliberately kept devoid of choice so as to keep them poor, no matter how hard they work.
It occupies the exact same category as ‘Elysium’ in my mind - cool setting with an amazing and insightful premise. And an… average execution. I can enjoy a film like that better than the other way around.
I mean spoilers but
they eventually rob whole banks and realise that’s not enough close to enough, that the issue is systemic. The writing then fails a bit because they still think the answer is just one big heist away.