Davor_Blazevic_1959 Review of Don't Look Up

Don't Look Up (2021)

If you don't see it (the comet)... nothing to worry about?! (Sic.)

[9/10 · 9 January 2022]

Don't Look Up (2021) is an excellent film co-written and directed by Adam McKay (his latest directions including The Big Short (2015) and Vice (2018)), exercising once again a satirical, occasionally sardonic approach to bring about human behaviour under given circumstances--this time facing a comet of the size of Mount Everest on an inevitably fatal collision course towards our planet Earth--abundant with rightfully pointing poisonous stings about contemporary human society immersed in consumerism, gossip, fake socializing over social networks, relied on dishonest, spineless, selfish politicians working for their own rather than for the universal benefit, dependent on greedy, predatory corporate tycoons taking advantage of clients' gullibility and their buyer mentality, etc. It's about society obsessed with poking one's nose into other people's whether business or privacy, as well as possessed by the individually lucrative but commonly detrimental enterprises including futile expenditures. If it hadn't been true (hence scary), it would've been fun. This way, although immensely entertaining, total, unrestricted amusement is debilitated with a considerable dose of bitterness in the mouth and fear in the bones. The actors are more than up to their challenges, as expected from the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, well seconded by Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Timothée Chalamet and many others.