The film is tedious in the last act, and Lawrence’s chemistry with Timothee Chalamet as a skater she takes up with saves it from being unwatchable.
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DiCaprio gets the arc, with him ditching his family for short-lived fame and a fling with a TV host (played by Cate Blanchett), but Lawrence is better in the more thinly written part. Jennifer Lawrence fares a lot better, as the more cynical half of the duo, a grad student without much faith in humanity and isn’t that surprised when no one cares the planet is about to end. His big monologue, which is supposed to rival Network’s “I’m mad as hell” scene falls totally flat, although McKay’s probably more to blame than DiCaprio. With his constant mugging and screaming, DiCaprio is trying hard here but comes off as smug, with him “playing down” a nerdy scientist who proudly boasts to a romantic partner that he finally got Mark Hamill to sign his Star Wars poster. He plays a bearded astronomer who, along with Jennifer Lawrence’s grad student, discovers that a comet will destroy the planet in a matter of months. That said, he’s disastrously cast in a role that, ideally, would have been played by McKay’s former cohort Will Ferrell. Of course, star Leonardo DiCaprio can be extremely funny when given the right material ( Wolf of Wall Street, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). McKay has assembled one of the biggest casts of all time but somehow forgot to cast anyone that was actually funny is what’s supposed to be a sharply witty satire. This should be Exhibit A anytime anyone claims that comedy isn’t as hard an acting job as drama. An arch parody that points an accusing finger right back at most of the folks that will probably be lured into watching this on the merits of the all-star cast, Don’t Look Up commits the worst sin of all – it’s not funny. Were it getting a theatrical release, I truly believe Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up would be an absolute disaster, making the Netflix release a blessing for all involved. Strangelove or Network, but just as often, it goes awry, resulting in movies like American Dreamz or the big-screen version of The Bonfire of the Vanities.
When it works, you can make a classic like Dr.
They try to warn the U.S president (Meryl Streep) but find themselves both ignored and seduced by their sudden notoriety. It will begin a limited theatrical release in the US on December 10th, 2021 before releasing worldwide on Netflix on December 24th.PLOT: Two astronomers (Leonardo DiCaprio & Jennifer Lawrence) discover that a comet the size of Mount Everest will hit earth in six months, ending all life. It’s a solid premise and a solid team for McKay’s latest, but can it reach the same heights he’s achieved before? We’ll all find out when it hits Netflix for a festive Christmas Eve release.ĭon’t Look Up is directed by Adam McKay and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and Rob Morgan. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as the main astronomers bouncing off believers and non-believers played by Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Melanie Lynskey, Cate Blanchett, and Tyler Perry, among many, many others. Given McKay’s recent successes, this is an unsurprisingly star-studded affair. McKay is taking that to a ridiculous extreme here, as he did in his last two films, Vice and The Big Short, and given how much this dynamic has wrecked our lives, it might just be cathartic to laugh about it. If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that people won’t trust sound science if it’s not telling them what they want to hear. Instead of inciting panic, though, the news is ignored by pretty much everyone, leaving them the only ones freaking out.
They try to raise the alarm in official ways, but when the government blows them off, they release the info to the public. They were looking at the stars when they found a comet hurtling towards Earth, one that’s big enough to wipe out all of humanity. No one pays attention to the scientists in Don’t Look Up, the latest comedy from writer/director Adam McKay.Īstronomers Randall and Kate weren’t looking for attention.
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