‘Don’t Look Up’ Film Review: Tedious Environmental Satire Flagrantly Wastes Its Own Resources
thewrap.compro-fracker.The 21st century has given writer-director Adam McKay all the ammo he needs to make a “Dr. Strangelove”–level satire about people in power fiddling while the world threatens to burn, but he’s chosen instead to create cartoonish, one-note characters and situations that wouldn’t make it out of the “SNL” writers’ room.Perhaps the bitterest irony on display in “Don’t Look Up” is that a movie about environmental crisis flagrantly wastes its own resources, notably an all-star cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Timothee Chalamet, Tyler Perry, Mark Rylance and Melanie Lynskey; the collective good intentions here could pave several highways to Hell, a destination that’s not.
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