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Don't Look Up (2021)
What would you do when you found out that every lifeform on Earth was going to be extinct in six months and fourteen days? A doctoral candidate in astronomy, Kate Dibiasky, discovered the comet and together with her professor Dr. Randall Mindy went on a journey trying to save the planet... Full comment.
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"Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem: it's on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care. Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate..." Rotten Tomatoes
RATING
R
(Graphic Nudity | Drug Content | Language Throughout | Some Sexual Content)
DIRECTOR
Adam McKay
RUNTIME
2h 18m
STUDIO
Netflix
WRITERS
Adam McKay
David Sirota
PRODUCERS
Adam McKay
Kevin J. Messick
Top Cast
Critics
David Fear
Don’t Look Up is a blunt instrument in lieu of a sharp razor, and while McKay may believe that we’re long past subtlety, it doesn’t mean that one man’s wake-up-sheeple howl into the abyss is funny, or insightful, or even watchable. It’s a disaster movie in more ways than one. Should you indeed look up, you may be surprised to find one A-list bomb of a movie, all inchoate rage and flailing limbs, falling right on top of you.
Logan Humphrey
The pacing is exceedingly fast and a little unsettling at times, all while cramming in several plot points. But the main joke remains persistent, which is basically the idiocy of the mass public. Some jokes land while some do not. With the film being a dark comedy, it can be hard for the movie to land jokes without remembering that the world is coming to an end.
Charles Bramesco
Adam McKay’s new satire Don’t Look Up, a last-ditch effort to get the citizens of Earth to give a damn about the imminent end of days spurred by the climate crisis, appears to be at least somewhat aware of this defect in human nature. It’s all about the difficulty of compelling the uninterested to care, in this instance about a gargantuan comet hurtling toward the Earth on a collision course of imminent obliteration – an emphatic if rather ill-suited metaphor.
