Don't Look Up (2021)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 138m
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Timothée Chalamet
Synopsis:
Alerted by astronomers as to the approach of an extinction level comet, the U.S. administration has six months to devise a suitable avoidance strategy. However, with the media apathetic and the state department in cahoots with mobile phone conglomerate B.A.S.H., the professor and his PhD intern grow increasingly desperate that their message might not be heard.
Review:
Timely satire on the world's ostrich-like response - but specifically the U.S.'s - to threats such as climate change and Covid, and our absorption by social media phenomena. Incorporating elements from earlier efforts, such as Armageddon and Greenland, the film groans somewhat at the seams and could have done with trimming of its more repetitious elements, but the imbecility on display is just about credible in view of the last administration; the closing minutes acquire a reflective, spiritual dimension as characters choose how to end their days. Post-credits revealing presidential comeuppance are essential viewing.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 138m
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Timothée Chalamet
Synopsis:
Alerted by astronomers as to the approach of an extinction level comet, the U.S. administration has six months to devise a suitable avoidance strategy. However, with the media apathetic and the state department in cahoots with mobile phone conglomerate B.A.S.H., the professor and his PhD intern grow increasingly desperate that their message might not be heard.
Review:
Timely satire on the world's ostrich-like response - but specifically the U.S.'s - to threats such as climate change and Covid, and our absorption by social media phenomena. Incorporating elements from earlier efforts, such as Armageddon and Greenland, the film groans somewhat at the seams and could have done with trimming of its more repetitious elements, but the imbecility on display is just about credible in view of the last administration; the closing minutes acquire a reflective, spiritual dimension as characters choose how to end their days. Post-credits revealing presidential comeuppance are essential viewing.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 138m
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Timothée Chalamet
Synopsis:
Alerted by astronomers as to the approach of an extinction level comet, the U.S. administration has six months to devise a suitable avoidance strategy. However, with the media apathetic and the state department in cahoots with mobile phone conglomerate B.A.S.H., the professor and his PhD intern grow increasingly desperate that their message might not be heard.
Review:
Timely satire on the world's ostrich-like response - but specifically the U.S.'s - to threats such as climate change and Covid, and our absorption by social media phenomena. Incorporating elements from earlier efforts, such as Armageddon and Greenland, the film groans somewhat at the seams and could have done with trimming of its more repetitious elements, but the imbecility on display is just about credible in view of the last administration; the closing minutes acquire a reflective, spiritual dimension as characters choose how to end their days. Post-credits revealing presidential comeuppance are essential viewing.