Don't Look Up

SnarkAI Score: 80/100

tldr:

While the reviewer mentions some criticisms, such as the similarity to another work and the overuse of close-cropped shots, they also highlight the strong performances by the cast and the compelling storytelling that captures the stress and frustration of facing an extinction-level event. Additionally, the reviewer notes that the film feels refreshingly realistic and relevant to the current political climate, adding to its overall impact.

Our Scores are generated by SnarkAI's analysis of our reviewer's writing. The tldr sumary is drafted by SnarkAI based on that review. All Images are AI generated based on the reviewers descriptions of scenes.

---

It feels far too realistic for satire.

Depressingly good, though achingly familiar to Ben Elton's outstanding novel Stark in a lot of respects particularly the epilogue.

Seth Rogan's well-cast as a smug self-important douche you immediately hate, just like his every character and real-life personality. Ariana Grande continues to impress with her self-aware sense of humor. There's also hilarity to the fact Leo's wife and his girlfriend in this film are more age-appropriate than the women Leo dates in real life. She's likely older than the mothers of many of Leo's girlfriends.

The sense of stress and frustration comes through, familiar to anyone who's tried to convince an unwilling audience of something you know to be true, to be self-evident almost, and yet to be facing the stubborn stares of people who just don't want to agree.

It's refreshing to see people actually reacting to an extinction-level event, rather than the normal stoic heroics. People panic and flail and make bad decisions, its very human in its storytelling.

The line "He's a platinum Eagle level donor to the campaign. He has full clearance" is painful in its credibility in a Trump-era America.

My only visual complaint is that it looks like the Art Director just discovered close-cropped shots and loves them.