A perfect movie for today perfectly made. It's modern satire at its best, almost a modern day Dr Strangelove meets Idiocracy. What would happen if a planet killing size asteroid was heading for earth in our modern culture run by complete morons? There's very obvious metaphors for what we have been dealing with the past few years (the meteor being covid) and it's very well written, acted, and directed. It has a huge cast who are all fabulous int this movie. While the political overtones are obvious, the movie does not beat you to death with it and leaves it to the viewer to decide where they fall on it.
Ariana Grande singing a song at an event (actually a pretty decent song too!) to make people aware the meteor is legit with the lyrics like "get your head out of your ass and listen to the qualified scientists, we really f%$ed it up this time" was classic stuff.
The movie is scary in the sense you can easily believe that's exactly how it might play out if a huge meteor was heading toward us with 100% certainty, but denial, greed, hubris, and plain old stupidity gets in the way. Grade A.
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