Review 631: Don't Look Up

  

Don’t Look Up is a tedious political satire that doesn’t have the bite to pull off its social commentary.

Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), two low-level astronomers go one a giant media tour in a desperate attempt to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy human civilisation.

The film is meant to be a satire of government and media indifference to the climate crisis but ultimately it isn’t a funny or a smart as it thinks it is.

Adam McKay’s direction is  the cinematography is  the score by Nicholas Britell is beautifully evocative, the production design is  The film also suffers from some pacing issues with it shifting between being good given the urgency of Mindy and Dibiasky’s situation and focusing on overlong gags and repetitive scenes them trying to convince indifferent media and government figures of the imminent danger. 

With this film, Adam McKay has assembled quite the cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Mark Rylance, Jonah Hill, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Hamish Patel, Arina Grande (yes really)

2/5.

The Anonymous Critic.