‘Don’t Look Up’, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, receives criticism divided by specialists
The film, which is directed by American filmmaker Adam McKay, ranks as one of the most watched in Ecuador on Netflix.
The movie Don’t Look Up is among the most viewed in Ecuador on Netflix, it ranks one this Tuesday, December 28. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.
Criticism from specialists has been favorable, although there are also those who have given not so positive and neutral comments for the film directed by American filmmaker Adam McKay.
"Satire of the end of the world"; "It is a scathing satire"; “You will laugh out loud with Don’t Look Up”; seen and forgotten ”; and "a different kind of catastrophe film" are some of the phrases with which the 138-minute film has been described.
Positive
For Johnny Oleksinski of the New York Post, “Leo and JLaw are truly hilarious in this satire of the end of the world (...). Entertaining and fun ”.
“He takes the pulse of contemporary life and finds it crazy, terrifying and, above all, funny. Not everything fits, but it does fit enough to make it a bold, star-studded treat, "said Empire's Ian Freer.
For her part, Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post pointed out that it is “a satire in the mold of‘ Dr. Strangelove and 'Idiocracy' ".
While Peter Travers, of ABC News, indicated that “McKay takes refuge in the obvious when we most want him to find the truth of the specific. But there's no denying the film's playful and provocative pleasures. You will laugh out loud with Don’t Look Up ”.
Neutral
CNN's Brian Lowry said that “Don’t Look Up is a scathing satire that sometimes goes off track (…). A sobering message, but one that is presented to us through the perspective of an uneven film ”.
"McKay applies his rolling method to simply crush everything (...), in that unbearable effort of the zasca at any cost, where McKay's work is flattened, vulgarized and decomposes," said Luis Martínez, of the newspaper El World.
Variety's Peter Debruge commented that it is "a different kind of catastrophe movie, in which the threat is not what is to come, but the current state of affairs."
"Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio and an incredible cast put their talents at the service of the film's dark but disappointingly obvious humor," said Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Negative
"A cynical, insufferably conceited and star-studded satire that purports to comment on the lack of political and media attention to the climate crisis, but actually only trivializes it," said David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter.
Carlos Boyero, from El País, pointed out that “seen and forgotten (...). What starts out as satire turns into graceless boredom despite DiCaprio, Streep or Lawrence. "
"It's like a 145-minute Saturday Night Live skit without the brilliant comedy of Succession, which McKay co-produces, or the seriousness that the subject might otherwise require," commented Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian.
“Don’t Look Up is absolutely right about the world we live in, but that doesn't make it a success. It is a satire without mordant, useless and impotent ”, affirmed Alonso Duralde, from The Wrap.
Do not look above, the name of the film in Spanish has several nominations, among them, for best comedy film, as well as in the actor, actress and screenplay categories at the Golden Globes. (I)
