Woke but still enjoyable.

Matt Damon’s character is a poor guy in a dystopian near-to-mid-future California. He is injured at work and faces his impending death by trying to fight against his society’s unjust ruling class, who live on a pristine space station.

Spoilers ahead:

The acting is good, and the story is too, but the film is essentially a vehicle to convey the writer or director’s politics as they relate to immigration in the USA. The space station is populated by capitalists who are portrayed as rich and heartless, and of course they exclude the third world earth people from their station, going so far as to shoot down ships with illegal immigrants on them.

Damon’s character infiltrates the station and changes it’s computer system to classify everyone as a ‘citizen’ effectively disabling the station’s defensive systems by preventing them from firing on the poor as they flood onto the station, inequality solved, right?!

I’d love to see the scene they left out though; as soon as the third world types on the earth take over the station, it would surely turn into the same dump they created on Earth!

Though I was rooting for the ‘bad guys’, I enjoyed the movie. It’s still worth a watch in my view.