Don't Look Up ( 2021) film review

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Star – Leo Dicaprio & Jennifer Lawrence My Rating **** Genre – Dromedy Run Time – 2 hr 18 Minutes. Certificate – 18R Country – U.S.A Oscars – 4 nominations Awards – 10 Wins & 80 Nominations = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Comedies are rare nominations in The Oscars, especially for Best Picture, the case with Don’t Look Up, a film that has divided critics. In fact it’s only the second movie on populist website Rottentomatoes.com to receive a negative rating (fewer than 50%) after getting an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. I just don’t think the critics appreciated director Adam McKay’s rather smug allegory on global warming here from Hollywood actors like Leo DiCaprio & co who preach on global warming but have five houses, private jets and you name it pumping out CO2 to entertain them. Unless we start to radically reduce the world’s population there is NOTHING WE CAN DO about global warming, 11 billion people predicted by 2050. If the paradox of burning more gas to heat my house makes temperatures rise outside so I can actually turn my heating down and save money then I’m all for it. ===Cast=== Leonardo DiCaprio…as Dr. Randall Mindy Jennifer Lawrence…as Kate Dibiasky Meryl Streep…as President Orlean Cate Blanchett…as Brie Evantee Rob Morgan…as Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe Jonah Hill…as Jason Orlean Mark Rylance…as Peter Isherwell Tyler Perry…as Jack Bremmer Timothée Chalamet…as Yule Ron Perlman…as Benedict Drask Ariana Grande…as Riley Bina ===Plot Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) is doing her Astronomy PHD at Michigan State. She discovers a new comet and confirmed by her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), soon named the Dibiasky Comet. But Dr Mindy has bad news to go with her good news. His complex math calculation predicts the comet, 8 kilometres wide, will hit Earth full in the face in 6 months and 14 hours time, an Earth Extinction event. This is also confirmed from on high. Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), NASAs Planetary Defense Coordination Chief, sounds the alarm in the science community and summoned to The White House with the two astronomers. But President Orlean (Meryl Streep) keeps them waiting, seemingly not convinced by them or their maths and so not a priority. But they are and its game over. The President is surprisingly blaze about it all and wants the news delayed until after her midterms. Nothing happens about the comet. Later the astronomers decide to leak the impending end of the world story to the Miami Herald but again the world indifferent, many on social media labeling them nut jobs and hysterical. The pair go nuclear to wake up the world to what’s about to happen and hit the NY talk shows, patronized by glamorous presenter Brie Evantee (Cate Blanchett) who prefers to flirt with Mindy than talk end of days with Diabiasky. It seems the world is just not interested and carries on going about their lives as the six months tick down. ===Results=== If you take this just as a comedy and ignore the preachy metaphors its good fun. Like I said, no need waking the world up to global warming as we are wide awake to it, and know its futile trying to stop it, having more babies and going back to sleep. Capitalism needs more and more young people to keep going and we need the capitalism to keep going. There is no other system. Technology is racing ahead exponentially to the point where humans, hundreds if not thousands of years from now, will create this very universe – be it accidentally - and we start all over again. That’s the only explanation to this chaos. That’s the only reason humans needed to be sentient. The acting is nothing special and DiCaprio doing a Russell Crowe these days and getting all porky and lazy with his roles, Jennifer Lawrence completely wasted here. Meryl Streep is officially old now and playing American Presidents for big paychecks, Mogan Freeman retirement time, a female Donald Trump send-up here spot on. There were no acting nominations for this film as it’s all about the message, the A-list lefty Hollywood cast simply on board as they want to push the ‘act now’ message on global warming. They are all hypocrites, of course. Leo is not happy when his gas guzzling Mercedes is a minute late to take him the 200 years to the studio lot. I laughed here and there and I feel the film nailed the point where we are in that place where we just don’t know what’s true anymore as the clutter and hype of social media and the internet rules our lives, that deliberate conflation of information by politicians and so-called experts making us not trust what is truth anymore, enough to the point where if there was a comet heading towards Earth to wipe us all out most people would says it’s a conspiracy and not real and probably blame the Jews. The world has become vacuous and we prefer reality TV to reality. ===RATINGS=== Imdb.com /10.0 (438,123votes) Rottentomatos.com –% critic’s approval Metacritic.com – % critic’s approval ===Trailer===