REVIEW: Don't Look Up

I’ve seen a lot of movies this year, and this is unfortunately the worst of them—by far.

It’s not the over-the-top, unveiled comet metaphor that substitutes for climate change (in some ways, it actually worked, when they didn’t try too hard). And it’s not even the mediocre-at-best performances from the super talented cast, including Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio.

It’s the writing and the directing. The writing is bad and the directing is worse, with uninspired choices made throughout the film that made it feel more like a paint-by-numbers flash-bang than an inspired piece of storytelling.

Some will say I’m missing the point—no, I get it. But I simply don’t like the end result of it, even if their metaphor is something I can understand and even get behind.

The talent associated with this movie gave it all the opportunity to be a sublime, charming story. But they threw it away for cheap gags, unclever and unwitty humor and excessive virtue signaling. This is an absolute miss for me, and massively disappointing given my expectations.

(All that being said: Whether it’s a comet or a climate problem, I can absolutely see parallels between the world they created and the one in which we live, and frankly the sheer stupidity that that’s possible might be compounding my frustration some.)

The bottom line: If you like satires you might enjoy it, but there are better things on Netflix. 2.5/10