Review: Don't Look Up (2021) dir. Adam McKay

When 12 soccer players from Thailand were trapped in a cave in July of 2018, billionaire Elon Musk live-tweeted his company’s efforts to build two escape devices: a slide and a submarine-like pod. The soccer players were rescued without the help of the South African billionaire, and he appeared to take that personally when he tweeted that the actual rescuer was a “pedo.” Musk’s involvement in the entire scenario, making his stream of consciousness apparent through Twitter, reeked of a bourgeois savior complex that ended in embarrassment. Don’t Look Up, director Adam McKay’s newest film, looks at the Musk-Thailand instance and wonders “what if I gave this scenario $75,000,000 to play out?”

And that was a bad idea.

Read the full review at the Boston Hassle.