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That’s when they decide to go public, enlisting the services of the New York Herald, who, in turn, suggest an appearance on hip breakfast TV show The Morning Rip to coincide with an article on their dire warnings. With the mid-terms only three weeks away, her latest Supreme Court nominee has come under fire for his belief in “shooting first and asking questions later”, career as a life model and lack of a law degree.Īfter a seven-hour wait leads to an overnight stay, our trio of scientists are even more dismayed when their near-certain doomsday-in-just-over-six-months-unless-the-comet-is-somehow-diverted assessment is met with a dismissive “sit tight and assess”. Unfortunately, President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) has more pressing matters. In Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence’s scientists attempt to prevent the end of humanity.
On another, it’s a quite brilliant pastiche of the Hollywood movies of the mid-to-late ‘90s ( Armageddon is firmly in film-maker Adam McKay and his team’s sights) when it was believed that any external threat could be solved by the President and someone willing to make “the ultimate sacrifice”.
Strangelove.Īt one level, it’s a stinging rebuke of governments, bureaucracy and the sometimes self-aggrandising, incompetent people that are attracted to power, that Veep and In the Loop’s Armando Iannucci would be proud of. Perfectly pitched and terrifically timed at the end of a year in which the war against truth intensified and the climate crisis facing humanity was made even more explicit than before, Don’t Look Up is likely to go down as this generation’s Dr. This is the star-studded, scabrous, scathing political and social satire the world needs right now.
The trailer for Don't Look Up which was released on Netflix on Christmas Eve 2021.ĭon’t Look Up (M, 138mins) Directed by Adam McKay *****