Review of Don't Look Up (2021) by Yaboybigv99 — 26 Dec 2021

The first 30 minutes set up something that really could’ve been an amazing movie, but it loses its focus after that. Yes, it’s is a satire, but a movie with such a promising cast lost all seriousness the moment they try to make a statement that has been regurgitated 30 times across multiple titles. That being said, the acting by the main cast is really well done, but the script fails to deliver any sort of depth for the characters. What you see in the first half an hour doesn’t change for the rest of the film.

The CGI in the movie is below average for something that came out in 2021. The random clipping to groups of people watching a news broadcast loses it’s touch after the first few times it’s introduced, more or less the ~50 times the movie uses this. It feels more redundant than anything to show random scenes of wildlife and cell phone ads in the middle of the monologues given. The cinematography felt lazy and uninspired, but even more so felt disorganized. Very little timespan is given throughout the movie, and before you know it you went from 6 months until Comet destroys the planet to just a few weeks.

The real moment the movie lost me was with Jonah Hills acting outside of their first real encounter. Everyone else in the main cast did a really good job of bringing the serious undertones into play, but Jonah Hills awkward **** comedy relief really just took away from the movie as a whole.

In summary, the movie falls flat after it barely gets on its feet due to the gradual turn from “apocalyptic drama” to “satirical comedy”. The only satisfying part of the movie is the inevitable destruction at the end after being spoon fed GREED IS BAD, DESTROY BIG BUSINESSES for the last hour or so. That, along with Leonardo DiCaprio’s sudden change of heart in his final interview. Honestly a shame since the first bit of the movie makes it out to be something a lot more interesting. Would not watch again nor recommend to anyone.