150 Word Review: 'Leave The World Behind' (2023)
I'll be there for you
While watching Netflix's disaster flick Leave The World Behind, I was reminded of George Carlin's joke about black box flight recorders: since they're indestructible, why aren't planes made from the same stuff? Leave The World Behind has a deliciously dark final beat before the credits roll. And it made me wonder: why couldn't the whole movie have been made out of that demented scene?
Instead, director and writer Sam Esmail made his movie out of stilted dialogue, lukewarm social commentary, and bad CGI. It shocks me that Barack and Michelle Obama read this script and said, "We're executive producing."
Leave The World Behind features a stacked cast, including Julie Roberts and Mahershala Ali. Roberts plays a misanthrope who surprises her family with a last-minute beach house getaway. The WiFi goes out. Strangers show up. Planes fall from the sky. Why is the world ending? Who cares? But what an ending.
You read my mind: "It shocks me that Barack and Michelle Obama read this script and said, "We're executive producing."
My partner and I said this repeatedly as we watched this movie...and given its run time, we said it a LOT. Oy with the poodles. >.<
Probably the worst film Julia Roberts made the mistake of agreeing to be in.
Is she that desperate for acting jobs now?