
Margo Martindale

Alexander Payne
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
R
135minutes
Downsizing is a sci-fi comedy film that follows Matt Damon as Paul Safranek, a man who decides to start a new life in a population control program that involves shrinking people down to miniature size. Expecting to the community with his wife, he discovers she backs out after he has already committed to it. Now stuck in a new world, Paul lives his new life but realizes that the downsizing process isn't quite as glamorous as it was d.
Downsizing does the bare minimum with its out-of-the-box concept, telling a story that’s dull and uninteresting in execution.