I felt empty after watching this movie. I literally felt robbed of my time. Those are 2 hours of my life wasted. I wasn't even entertained. I think the movie grabs your attention in the first 15 minutes, and then the sunk cost fallacy kicks in, and you're in it until the end. Hoping that you will be rewarded for sticking with it until the end. But you won't be.
@@henryreinders3031Its obviously an awful movie. Whats funny though. I knew the end was gonna be bad from reading the reviews. But because they played the friends theme as the last scene, it just left me happy and smiling! 😂
The same. Like, wtf we get Ethan Hawke in it. His one of my favorite actors. Is Julia Roberts so overrated she was such a Karen in this movie. Everyone sucked in this movie except Mr.Hawke I know you just did for the money and I forgive you lol. I want my two hours back too. I found myself fast forwarding through this whole movie.
@paulmendez3405 lol it made for some good running commentary and complaining at the screen at least. Can't remember the last time I've seen such unlikeable characters too... Julia Roberts character was the worst!
I watched the Mark Kermode review and found myself wondering if the only reason he was praising it to Hugh Heaven was because Barack Obama produced it. I have to imagine so considering how much time he spent going on about how much more suave and refined he is compared to his successor, as if any of that has anything to do with how good the movie is...
@@confounded_felineboth of the women were incredibly annoying. If you asked me to identify which one was the useless insufferable racist, I'd tell you the correct answer is yes...
The only fun thing was to complain at the screen. They should bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000 just to do a show on this moivie, it would be a hoot!
Things to Google for this movie: QR code and lake Shawnee amusement park Scott v sandford ( the names of the families) Fort Mose and Point Comfort (the hwy signs when they turn off to go to house) The year 1619 (the radio station in the car) White lion ship (the beached freighter)
film went over your head. The film does a fantastic job at exposing who is a sheep and who isnt. Stick to films like 2012 and moonfall. Those seem to be more on your level.
Oh Marc you are so intelligent. This film is definitely on your level. I always find that people like yourself who insult peoples intelligence or get personal when they don’t like what they say ( they spoke about the film) are the biggest indoctrinated sheep themselves. I bet this won’t go over your head though as you are SOOOOO INTELLIGENT
I left a review for my friends on FB that read "I've taken a whole day to digest and think about, Leave The World Behind the movie on Netflix. Conclusion, it is 2 hours and 21 minutes of my life that I will NEVER get back. The movie is agonizingly slow, plodding from one useless and unbelievable point to another. I don't know which character was the worst, Julia Roberts' always angry woman or the Myha'la Herrold's overty racist character. Ethan Hawk's completely spinless character. Kevin Bacon will probably go into hiding after accepting a part in this movie and is only in the movie because the son (a total dick)... SPOILER, had his teeth "fall" out (this was a gnarly scene). Mahershala Ali who finally gets to play a good guy was the only character who wasn't totally annoying. There was no rhyme or reason, point or even a specific direction this film followed. Julia Roberts may not have damaged her career image but it sure wasn't helped by this film... screaming at deer... really. The only one who got a "happy ending" was the otherwise forgettable character, the daughter, Rosie. I would say if you have a choice between watching this movie and a root canal, hit up your dentist, now."
During the movie, I kept checking how much of it was left. At about the halfway point, I was about 50/50 to turn it off, and boy I sure wished that I had done exactly that. What a stinker.
@@annettemcdonald5633Will you stop buying into the delusion that these administrations are any different from each other? There is only one political governing system in place in America and It's owned and controlled by the haves (wealthy elite).
Just saw this movie and immediately went looking for reviews. I completely agree with your assessment. I was waiting for some kind of resolution that never came.
I feel like everyone has missed the point of this ending. Or are choosing to ignore it. Makes me feel like this guy didn't even watch the movie and copied someone else's review. The characters aren't supposed to be likable. I feel like that's obvious and intentional. The acting was very high grade for an apocalyptic type of movie. The setting felt very immersive. Its dreadully realistic. The dialogue wasn't corny, all the writing was fantastic. It takes place within the Mr. Robot universe. Everything that's happening makes a lot of sense and how it's connected. I haven't read a criticism of this film that was valid. They are just stupid
@@DavidFinniit just felt like barley anything happened. I felt like a spent the whole 2 hours waiting for the plot to actually take off but then it just ended abruptly
@DavidFinni the main cristcism of the movie is that it lacks a resolution. The characters act beyond what can be considered normal (the daughter is 13 and still does the most retarded shit) and there are a myriad of plot points that are just forgotten. It's like if someone took the first half of a horror movie and stretches it out to 2 hours. what do the deer do? How are the involved in this? The movie is literally half finished.
the message of the whole film is consumerism has overtaken us, we care more about our phones and entertainment than the real world and the well-being of our families. At the end, we become Rose, desperate to watch the last episode instead of focusing on the outside world. Rose read the alert message saying that there radiation in the air, get to shelter. But once she seen the dvd's, she completely forgot about saving her family from exposure. It's devastating watching her sit there with a smile on her face when everyone else is dying. The director knew exactly what he was doing. Genius film.
Maybe deep down.. that message is rubbing people the wrong way. People want to ignore that thats how our culture is. That what Rose did is inside the viewer also. So many remakes and sequels these days.. I love how this movie made you think. A lot of questions with few answers, but that's what's great about it. I'm glad the rotten tomatoes score is going up at least on the critic front, at 75 now. I first saw it around 55 percent or so on there, and I was so confused. I expected much higher. The audience score however, is currently lower than some of the worst netflix originals.. maybe people don't appreciate good acting? Obviously a decent amount of people just don't get it, I didn't get the Barbie movie so each their own.@@marklawd91
@@walkerm4904nah, if any modern writer/director ruined a bunch of movies inspired by their work, that dishonor definitely goes to Joss Whedon and maybe JJ Abrams.
You gotta realize no movie creator or writer is waiting for a random civilian to give them a green flag/validation for their work. You don't like it you just move on.
OK I had issue with so many things. What's the point of the shed? Why was the little girl so odd. What's up with the Spanish lady on the side of the road? Why did the mural behind the bed change? I kept seeing things that never got explained...... It drove me crazy. 12:01
Spanish lady was just saying that she had been walking forever and needed to get home, that a plane had been spraying red gas, and that she wanted to use his phone. Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a panicked person who doesn’t speak English as a first language. There’s not much mystery behind her. Source - Can understand Spanish
I think that’s the point that either isn’t delivered effectively by the film or goes over the viewers heads. Nothing is happening, it’s about paranoia and how each character (and people in general) react to being suddenly cut off from media/ communication and faced with what we can assume is the collapse of American society. I just finished the movie and aside from blowing out my speakers from that F-king terrible noise, I thought it was thought provoking and eerie in a “how safe are we really?” kind of way.
I've watched this movie yesterday. In the first 20 minutes I was hoping everyone would die a painfull death. I can't recall characters more anoying than those in this f'ing movie! My partner is autistic and we believe that the girl obssessed with Friends was supposed to be autistic too. She heard the sirens before anyone else (sensory acuity) had an hyperfocused personality (Friends, dears, the ship...) and she had what we call the "Hollywood autistic stare", the only way movies know how to imply autism without saying. And she survives because of her quirks (wich is another obvious trope in those movies). Anyways, the movie was crap. As you said, it had everything we had seen before, just slower and dumber.
It amazes me that this has 75% on Rotten Tomatoes and 6.6 on imdb as of this posting. This was by far the worst movie I've seen in the past decade. But not "so bad that it's good" because that would be okay. Its like the bartender that would be funny and cool if she was an intentional asshole, but she's just a boring jerk who ignores you and pours weak drinks.
You need to look at the user reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, rather than the critics. Its obviously an awful movie. Whats funny though. I knew the end was gonna be bad from reading the reviews. But because they played the friends theme as the last scene, it just left me happy and smiling! 😂
What is there really to spoil? Very little actually happens because unless there's some sort of giant transport vehicle moving at high velocity toward someone or deer crowding around people, almost nothing actually happens in this movie. The moment when George and that annoying racist chick (honestly it's an accurate description of both women in this movie) show up presented some genuine suspense because nobody has any idea who each other are, but beyond that first night, there isn't really that much natural tension that isn't contrived even though the situation itself is a perfect source of drama all on its own. Most of the suspense for a huge chunk in the middle of the movie comes entirely from the music playing than from anything that's actually happening on screen. It's never a good sign when you find yourself more interested in what was going on off screen than what's happening right in front of you.
@@Tyler_Wand if Julia Roberts’ character was soooo worried about the strangers in the house possibly molesting her kids, why the hell did she sleep in until 10am and tell her daughter to go run off and play by herself!!! Incoherent!
The ship at the beginning is a Trojan horse. There are signals of this when George talks about the ‘I love you’ virus. Which was actually a Trojan horse virus.
A typical New York family (rich white people) travel to a charming country home (a mansion) far away from the city (Long Island) where they face a terrifying ordeal (no wifi). This film is about the importance of collecting physical media.
Haha. I gave all of my CDs (a couple hundred) to a friend 15 years ago after I copied them to an external drive and I regret it now. Learned my lesson, still have most of our DVDs and some Blueray discs. Kevin Bacon's character is Hollywood over the top ridiculous. So intentionally unhelpful to someone he knows well after a mere 2 days = trying too hard to create fake tension.
@@EvilMonkey7818trying too hard to create fake tension describes this entire movie. I can't imagine why when the situation itself is fertile ground for plenty of drama all on its own...
We watched it last night (and yeah it was horrible. in the end we said: "The Happening did this better."); but the point i came on to make was that when we say the "Act 2" card, we went... "huh? what was act one? Was there a title to it?" For some movies like Kill Bill, it made sense. But for this, it just let us know that 1. how far in to the movie we were, and 2. that this was probably supposed to be a tv series and not a movie.
I can not get my head arounf how many people do not like this movie! Its the best film ive seen in so long! I thought it was original and super suspenseful, it had me gripped all the way though! I think you have to have a good attention span and have knowledge about whats happening in the world (things we dont see) and i think you have to know about subliminal messages to "get it"
Bruh... I liked the "idea" of the movie, but the execution of the film was terrible. They dont need to explain everything every 5 minutes of dialogue, its so sad. Waiting for a spoiler rant review!
‘The animals are trying to warn us’ okay how? The radiation was already setting in. What would following the deer do?? 😂 my gf said the same thing you did about the acts and my exact answer was Tarantino is the only one who does it right. Great actors cannot carry a bad movie anymore. I’m tired of movies having such build up to absolutely nothing. It’s a trend going on. And the director had a few good shots but his fading in and out and twirling was annoying. Also why is there a random shed in the back of the house that doesn’t seem to be owned by G.H. that some squatter has been in. What was the point of that plot point?? Bacon should’ve had a bunker, not just chilling in his house lol
Yeah the ending a lazy shame and especially w all the talent involved so surprised they couldn’t join forces to ensure a great ending to what I thought was a good story concept.
Comment section confirms that people watch movies these days waiting for the end credits and a huge payoff. It's weird how people can't be left alone to do any actual thinking, but have to be given answers on a silver platter so they can hop on to the flick to keep the dopamine flowing.
@@hapotus410 If you're building up a mystery-box you have to give answers to the questions you raised at some point. What they did wasn't even an ending it was just a cut and done. Claiming that an "ending" like that leads to "actual thinking" is just a lazy excuse since the topics are way too basic to inspire discussion. It's bad writing no matter how much you belittle the people that don't like it.
Its obviously an awful movie. Whats funny though. I knew the end was gonna be bad from reading the reviews. But because they played the friends theme as the last scene, it just left me happy and smiling! 😂
Instead of the girl being obsessed with the vomit-inducing "Friends" show, it should have been "Everybody Loves Raymond." In fact, the movies should have been two minutes of this vulgar cast and then two hours of ELR reruns... at least we would have had some entertainment.
I thought this movie was excellent. It opened up the idea of internal fractures and how they can manifest as external issues. There were no ghosts or monsters, the fear was human.
Trust, you guys aren't wrong in your creeping suspicion. Most people who disliked this film really just needed an enema, direct injection, IV drip, espresso, turbo shot of action film or romance drama/comedy so they don't have to be threatened with thinking before they go to bed, absolute troglodytes.
In elementary school writing we learn “show not tell”, which means your story should show what it intends to be about through action, dialogue, setting, etc, instead of explicitly saying it. This movie clearly didn’t get the memo that your viewer should be able to take away the theme and lesson without a main character having to wrap it all up in the end with “information he knew about but didn’t want to share in case he was wrong”. There was nothing deep about this movie. It was incredibly surface level in every single way. It is infuriating that this is considered top-notch these days. The public deserves better.
I’ve seen a lot of comments talking about how “deep” this movie is and how it “really makes you think” so it’s very sobering to see others with the same opinion. I didn’t find any depth at all in the film. It’s disappointing since the premise of the movie leaves room for so much to work with but the execution was awful. The deep topics people bring up are extremely basic like how it shows everyone is too reliant on technology. Okay? What other movies are people watching if this is the bar for a thought provoking movie? It’s absurd.
The people claiming that the movie is "deep" are just outing themselves as shallow and ignorant (or they're lying for some reason). The concept would have been better as a series but the unlikeable characters make that basically impossible.
yeah it was an interesting choice to make every single character borderline unwatchable. I think a series could have been better but the topics were far too broad sweeping to sum up in a movie. @@HunterSThompson123
Just listen to the dialogue in the opening scene. Julia Roberts couldn't give more of an info dump if she tried. I felt that between it and the credits running and ridiculous camera work I should turn it off in the first 20. Definitely should've
Great review. Most exciting build up of this movie were the Julia Roberts interviews where she listed three things sbe wouldn't do that she did when she was younger. One was not plucking her eyebrows. I think that level of suspense must carry over to the film and is reflected in your review. Did you like August: Osage County with Julia Roberts? Thanks Adam!
Similar thing happened to me. The Mrs. put this one on. We fast forwarded the last 20 minutes we just couldn’t get through this boring bad bad movie. I also feel like it ended right when it could be interesting.
Its because your "Mrs" likes Julia Roberts, and maybe hunky E. Hawke, and scrolls through social media, and follows INFLUENCERS. I bet you guys sat down to watch "Barbie" together too. After all, it's by Gerwig who is so talented, right? No fiendish nepotism and celebration because she's a woman. Dude, chances are, if it's recommended by a typical American woman, it's going to be typically bad. And bad for all the same usual reasons.
I watched this with my girlfriend and her roommate and there was an audible groan from all three of us at the end. It’s the type of movie that keeps you invested but leaves no satisfaction.
Well that’s the point, your so focused on your fix of getting a satisfying ending(the girl wanted to just finish the last season of friends the whole time everything is happening) that you don’t see the collapse of everything around you, also another play on the whole friends thing is the song, trying to tell us that if the world did collapse we would have to rely on each other. But the whole movie just shows distrust between the characters Everything is symbolic in this movie, and it for sure went over all 3 o y’all heads. And if you can’t correlate these to real life I think you need to pay attention to what happens in the world more and in movies😂
@@connorhouston2628I keep seeing people like you dismiss criticism by saying the movie “went over someone’s head,” I promise it didn’t and it isn’t as deep as you think it is. The characters were suspicious but ultimately very trusting of each other. This movie is not very good please watch more movies and the criticism people have clearly goes over YOUR head. The exposition and line delivery is immensely horrible. The shot composition tries way too hard to be innovative to the point all of the scenes are shot so similarly and with the lame zoom/ panning nonsense repeatedly. The writing is fairly poor, there is very little suspense because not much happens and every time something does it leads to something mundane and anti climactic. This movie is just boring conversation after boring conversation and ultimately builds to absolutely nothing despite what little profundity can be extracted tbh
@Sluglove sorry but the film did indeed go over your head. The film does a fantastic job at exposing who is a sheep and who isn't. Very important film about how we prioritse entertainment instead of reality and how we ignore nature when its trying to tell us something. The director knew exactly what he was doing with the ending. Are you a sheep (rose) or not (Someone that isn't obsessed with phones and TV shows and video games). genius ending.
100% agree with you. This movie is SO lame and pointless. And now, there is a bunch of edgy Tiktokers saying “If you did not like it it’s cuz u did not understand it” lmao 🤣
I hate movies with these types of endings. "Let the viewer decide the ending in their own minds" WTF! Shouldn't I have to join SAG before writing the end to this movie?!?!? Seriously!
Thankyou! I'm baffled by all the good reviews. This just seemed like a crappy M Night Shyamalan co-production with Bad Robot. It was a mystery box with nothing inside it and reminded me a lot of The Happening.
"That movie and people who like it suck?" Personal attacks, eh? PSA, it's still illegal and immoral to [REDACTED] children. So.... keep it in your pants.
I should have learned my lesson with Squid Game or Bird Box. When Netflix puts out a propaganda movie that trends #1, and has everyone talking it usually is TRASH. This was no different.
I love all reviews that say the kids were a great part of this. Thank you thank you thank you for saying the contrary. For me they were the absolute worst part. And the most “movie kids” I’ve seen in a long time. Like they literally went into a creepy ass shed with an imprint of a body and neither one was freaked out. They are both so robotic trash characters. Like I get the sibling rivalry but no this is crap. The kid wakes up and pull out a tooth and before he can be freaked out about it he continues to pull out teeth like that’s a great idea???? This film is just so lazy about everything.
I agree that this wasn't good. I was the film equivalent of blue balls. I almost turned it off several times, and then they'd dangle an inkling of an interesting concept...and then it wouldn't pay off. A guy at work was all about this film, but nothing happens. I can't tell whether they think people are gonna clamour for a sequel or something, but what a lousy movie. You know what this reminded me of? Shyamalan's "The Happening" I will say, though, that I thought Tesla gave them some ad money at one point. But I'm fairly confident that's not the kind of ad they were hoping for.
Yea it's not our most viewed service either. Lately there's been a few decent things on there, and they always have good stand up comedy. I probably watch Hulu and Amazon Prime the most.
I paused it almost halfway through and got some wine. An hour and a few quick glasses later I watched the second half. More proof that we often make poor decisions while drinking. Sitting on the porch watching traffic go by would have been a better use of time.
Ha! Couldn’t have said it better myself. Your review was 100x more entertaining than that garbage fire I just watched burn down slowly for 2.5 hours. 🙄
I laughed so much during this movie. I almost feel bad for Julia Roberts, and I’m very concerned about the Obamas’ judgment. Insipid script. No subtleties or nuance. The only tension comes from the music. Nothing (NOTHING) at stake.
Very lazy ending and this movie didn’t need to be over 2 hours if they weren’t going to explain anything at all, And we already seen a better version of this movie this year with a Knock at the Cabin that was done in 1 hour 40 minutes not 2 hours and 20 minutes
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The message is awful, liberal, and depressing. The characters are all brain dead besides kevin bacon’s character. The ending is awful.
Maybe call it "Karen Versus the Apocalypse." Seemed a satire about white privilege, and at times came close to breaking the fourth wall. Kept waiting for one of the characters to wink at the camera. And then it would go back to being a "serious" movie. Pick a lane, please. I mostly agree with your review. I was barely holding on, kept thinking to turn it off, but hung in there.
Worst movie I’ve seen in a while. I wished had watched this review before I saw this and saved myself 2 hours. I enjoyed Alas, Babylon novel from 1959 more.
The style of the movie reminds me a bit of an even bigger stinker - 'Don't Look Up' which was the most cringe attempt at satire in film history. Though this isn't nearly as awful as that meandering film it is boring and the only likeable characters are the two fathers. The two adult women are both paranoid, racist bitches whose only real purpose in the movie is to heighten interpersonal tension for everyone, since the world ending/attack plot is lacking in potency.
The racism was not subtle, even when it was couched in metaphor; and it sure wasn't against blacks. The plot was meandering and silly (apparently pilots and captains can't operate ships and planes without computers - and animals tell us to run for our lives without doing so themselves - in this mess of a film), and one is left with the creepy feeling that certain elites would love to execute this sort of terrorist act because "humans are bad".
I thought it might be interesting so I started it, but soon started wishing it would be over soon. I liked some of the photography; the upside down, sideways pans were probably the best parts. I really had to force myself to watch the whole thing, and I did make it to the end. But without any sense of satisfaction. Time spent watching a bad movie is not the same as time lost. It makes us appreciate more; the good movies. The final explanation was very shallow and way too speculative. The characters were not true even to themselves. Each person had a potential, but none were fully realized. The story elements left a lot of holes and open ends. Two big thumbs down.
There was a part where Julia Roberts walks up some stairs and down a hall that I watched several times. I still can't really figure out that shot unless there was a lot of CGI trickery in it.
After watching the whole movie it felt as if I only watched a half of a movie. Talk about major failure of bringing conclusion to a storyline. I would have been at least more satisfied even if it had a bad ending, but this had no ending at all.
I didn’t catch racists vibes at all from Julia Robert’s. I caught racist vibes from G.H.’s daughter, who said in a scene; “I don’t like them because their white.” I was a tad dumbfounded they actually put that in the script.
Movie is horrible. Makes no sense. So technology fails and the world fall apart in a couple of days? Might I remind whoever wrote this that there are someone us alive when there were no cell phones, No GPS (I went to flight school in the 80s and the best we had were VOR stations). No G1000 displays, all steam gauges. Low end planes did not have auto pilots. Cars were all old school, no fancy electronics, distributor cap no on board computer. My Suzuki Samurai didn't come with a radio. I had to install one after market. I remember using something called a map for land navigation in the military and my wife always had the map and was the navigator. TV was analog with rabbit ears, no cable and we had NBC, CBS, ABC, WOR, WPIX and PBS (NYC). AM/FM analog radio of the air. No VHS, DVD. Everything was hard wired, no digital switching and nothing was connect to one another. TV were Black and white and worked on tubes. Then U turned them on they took a little while to heat up and come on. In college I used a manual typewriter to do my papers. No word processors. Research was done by going to the library and check out a thing called a book. My point is we lived in the 60s and 70s without the technology we have today and still went about or daily lives. It is so stupid to think that in a few decades we have become so dependent on technology that if it failed the would would instantly fall apart. And FYI, even on newer fancy airplanes with all the G1000 modern glass cockpits, U still have old traditional steam gauges as backup in a emergence. If my autopilot started to misbehave, I would simple pull the mechanical circuit breaker and shutdown the autopilot or any other computer system. If U want a movie on what happens on an aircraft when the world goes to crap, I highly recommend Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks. A 100% better movie and a true story. Kevin Bacon is in that one also. Don't waste ur time with Leave the Wold Behind. A waste of some very talented actors. I am a fan of all of them. Only reason I tuned in.
It's not just that technology is failing, it's that it's actively being used against us. Everything is run by technology and is vulnerable to cyber attack on a grand scale. Humans are already entirely dependent on technology and power. If I lose power, I don't even have running water. It's game over if it happens to an entire country at the same time.
I didn't mind the ending, but it was the process of reaching there! The story development was boring and tedious, there was some cool scenes and plots but then it went nowhere! What a waste of time.
Briliant movie. It takes a special kind of ignorant to avoid the warnings of this movie. Only those that drive consumerism will look the other way. Hey "Don;t Look Up"!
This is an ignorant answer. What the message of the movie? Enlighten us. Don’t drive electric cars, reject reliance on technology? Carry cash in case you are exposed to isolate radiation in a group of people and need to buy medicine so your teeth don’t fall out? Technology has brought the world together. Encouraged understanding and made parts of the world that were deserted and forgotten about accessible. It has provided medicine, food, water and sustainable solutions for these necessities to parts of the world where people died of hunger, lack of medicine, and drinking water. It helped us learn about other cultures. It helped us connect with families, friends, and strangers on other sides of the country or across the world. It has saved lives through breakthroughs in medical procedures and solutions for people with disabilities.
If you try to think about some themes and the characters, there is a lot of sense with that ending. I hate to say it, but I think you didn’t get it… It is not a perfect movie, but I liked it. It felt somewhat realistic, even if it’s a little mean spirited (thinking that all humans are kind of bad).
I am going to be one of the few it seems that actually liked this movie. I do agree that the ending was not great and I have a few questions about some of the things that happened. That said, I am a sucker for apocalyptic movies. I think what won me over for this movie was it had great tension build-up throughout the movie as things became more and more ominous. I have read that the book left more of an open question as to what happened. But what I did like about the explanation given is it seems like one of the most realistic I have heard in a apocalyptic movie. Also there is a monologue near the end that Julia Roberts gave in the Shed that I could really relate too. I certainly would not say this is the best apocalyptic movie, but it kept me interested even if the end didn't bring it home.
Nothing about this was realistic at all. Usually buildup is suppose to come with some sort of an explanation or at least some substance. This was a waste of money and time.
@@thepharaohxciii I think the explanation GH gives in the car is pretty realistic as something that COULD actually happen. Especially if you watching how the world is right now. Now did the actual end of the movie bring it home. Nope, and I said as much in my comment. As far as waste of money, it didn't cost me anything except my subscription to netflix which I would have paid weather I watched the movie or not.
I wish I hadn’t wasted my time watching it. The ending was just so disappointing and bad. Imagine you’re watching a film and you’re just getting into it and waiting for what’s just about to happen when adverts come on and you have to wait till the adverts stop, accept there are no adverts it’s the end of the film that’s how bad.
@@BTOP36 exactly, the author of the book it's based on even said it's necessary in this kind of story to leave some aspects of the story to the audience's imagination, which is parallel with what i've read about other directors' opinions on similar films. it's important! some people just don't like it, which i get, what i don't get is how a lot of those people let it ruin the whole thing for them. they call it "slow" and "disappointing" because they weren't given answers for everything.
I get movies nowadays are suppose to keep us on edge and make it suspenseful, but I never felt that in movies, either give us answers or give us an ending we can live with, not America falling and some girl watching Friends, it feels like the producers just went "We like friends, so we'll make a character that's obsessed with it and convince people to watch the show.... oh and there's a cyberattack"
So far you have remand the most honest critic. Keep up the good work. This film was crap. They are running out of ideas. haha. It tries to be clever hahaha. Keep doing what you are doing my man. Fuck the haters. lol. Have a mint day boss
Thank you so much, youve helped me so much dealing with this bullshit. I finished the movie and felt sick… the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen. Copycat bullshit
I'm so glad to see I wasn't the only one with this opinion. I often go watch movie scores on imdb after I've watched them and usually be shocked at their score. This movie felt so incredibly empty, even though it's 2 hrs long, you can recap the whole story in 30 seconds. The movie has totally no direction and explains absolutely nothing of what's happening or why things happen. Some of the roles make zero sense as well. The dad being a teacher and has zero social skills or logical thinking, making him come off as a total loser. This bothered me the most to be honest. Awful waste of time..
THANK YOU! (8 minutes in now) I was trying to remember what specific movie this reminded me of last night. It was Twister. I was thinking that maybe Volcano, because of all the forced racism commentary, but it was Twister. Maybe a combination of the two.
Thank you for validating my thoughts. I was so frustrated, I felt like I did not get it. It's like Netflix asked an AI to write a script not too good, not too bad, but just enough to keep people watching for 2+ hours, or just to see the train wreck. If it wasn't for Julia Roberts I would have stopped the movie after 10 minutes. When I saw her looking at the camera, I immediately lowered my expectations, just maybe I can enjoy this. I was just stupid. The stupid deer had no point. People flirting weirdly just to run the clock. Making stupid promises, not watching over their own kids just so that stupid things can happen. Even Kevin Bacon, being a prepper, and after a lot of stupid dialog and time consuming tension, he just takes the money! What is he going to do with money? After the movie ended I had to watch the first episode of The Last of Us just to forget about this bad movie.
Things to Google for this movie: QR code and lake Shawnee amusement park Scott v sandford ( the names of the families) Fort Mose and Point Comfort (the hwy signs when they turn off to go to house) The year 1619 (the radio station in the car) White lion ship (the beached freighter) They live next to the Huxley's referring to Aldos Huxley At the end Rose finds safety in the house of the Thorns Tons of Easter eggs and symbolism in this movie. It might make it more interesting for you.
I wouldn't even bother to watch it, and you say it stinks so for sure I wouldn't watch it. Julia Roberts is still hot as hell, but I am not going to watch a movie just for that. Forget it.
😂😂😂😂😂 you are so on point on all of these man so disappointing. All these movies focus on driving box office number by overhyping the trailers. Almost feels like the make trailers first then build non sensical movies around it. So annoyed by everyone who thinks this was a brilliant movie...ughh
After the end, I looked for a place to rant and warn others. This movie reminded me of M Night Shamalan and suspenseful and kept expecting something, BUT NOTHING HAPPENS ITS RIDICULOUS. Also, they had to make sure to say some woke crap, "YOU CANT TRUST WHITE PEOPLE." Why throw that in your crappy movie? The ending was literally the daughter getting to see the last episode of Friends.
The only amazing thing about this film is the size of Julia Robert's nostrils. I'm not kidding......they're HUGE! I'm surprised they all didn't climb in for safety.
Is this movie actually a cancelled series? Because that's the impression I get from it being divided into parts 1-5. It had good buildup, but no payoff/conclusion.
Yeah, I didn't care for this either. They were going for some racial metaphor and it was lost on me here as Hawke's character was nice the entire time and they do kind of imply (badly) that Robert's character might be a tad racist, but she gets over it so quick it really does not land. They clearly wanted this to be some racial metaphor about when crap hits the fan people get tribal again. Kevin Bacon's character is small as a prepper type of guy that actually has stuff the other's need, but even he does not refuse at first because of race as the boy sick is white and Hawke's character is there with Ali's character. They all seem to be just initially selfish and not racist, which I actually think is kind of prudent since they never tell anyone what is happening. With the weird animal behavior, they really needed to tell people what was going on and who is doing it, but instead make the bad decision to not do that so it is a mystery. The kids behaviors just go no where. One loses teeth but never told why. The boy is obviously liking Ali's daughter but she is kind of reverse racist, but nothing happens in this subplot and it is dropped. The 13 year old likes Friends and um "?". In fact, Ali's character is also so nice and accommodating I just do not get what the story is here. It is like they wanted to do some deep message about getting along and not being tribal and hateful, but all the characters are so nice it does not line up at all. It was like a bad M. Night movie with a bunch of interesting ideas at first that go no where at all because the characters do not seem to know what is happening and they all get over their distrust so quickly the event no longer matters as there are no stakes.
I felt empty after watching this movie. I literally felt robbed of my time. Those are 2 hours of my life wasted. I wasn't even entertained. I think the movie grabs your attention in the first 15 minutes, and then the sunk cost fallacy kicks in, and you're in it until the end. Hoping that you will be rewarded for sticking with it until the end. But you won't be.
i just fast fowarded shit around the 1 hour mark lmao. saved a lot of time and missed nothing. what a trash movie
@@henryreinders3031Its obviously an awful movie.
Whats funny though. I knew the end was gonna be bad from reading the reviews.
But because they played the friends theme as the last scene, it just left me happy and smiling! 😂
I hated this movie. I want my 2 hours back. Thank you for doing this review. I totally agree with you.
The same. Like, wtf we get Ethan Hawke in it. His one of my favorite actors. Is Julia Roberts so overrated she was such a Karen in this movie. Everyone sucked in this movie except Mr.Hawke I know you just did for the money and I forgive you lol. I want my two hours back too. I found myself fast forwarding through this whole movie.
Man I like this film bro I don't understand why so much people hate it.
@@ChrisMartinSmith952That's what they want you to think if people say it's bad then people won't watch it
I needed this. I sought this out after that movie. I need vindication that people can't really take this seriously.
Same here, this is more ridiculous than the happening
@paulmendez3405 lol it made for some good running commentary and complaining at the screen at least. Can't remember the last time I've seen such unlikeable characters too... Julia Roberts character was the worst!
I watched the Mark Kermode review and found myself wondering if the only reason he was praising it to Hugh Heaven was because Barack Obama produced it. I have to imagine so considering how much time he spent going on about how much more suave and refined he is compared to his successor, as if any of that has anything to do with how good the movie is...
@@confounded_felineboth of the women were incredibly annoying. If you asked me to identify which one was the useless insufferable racist, I'd tell you the correct answer is yes...
The only fun thing was to complain at the screen. They should bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000 just to do a show on this moivie, it would be a hoot!
I was appalled by the positive reviews, many of them five stars. Thank you for restoring my faith in human intelligence
Things to Google for this movie:
QR code and lake Shawnee amusement park
Scott v sandford ( the names of the families)
Fort Mose and Point Comfort (the hwy signs when they turn off to go to house)
The year 1619 (the radio station in the car)
White lion ship (the beached freighter)
Critics gave positive reviews probably because movie was produced by the Obamas. But the audience hated it, just look at the Rotten Tomatos.
film went over your head. The film does a fantastic job at exposing who is a sheep and who isnt.
Stick to films like 2012 and moonfall. Those seem to be more on your level.
Oh Marc you are so intelligent. This film is definitely on your level. I always find that people like yourself who insult peoples intelligence or get personal when they don’t like what they say ( they spoke about the film) are the biggest indoctrinated sheep themselves. I bet this won’t go over your head though as you are SOOOOO INTELLIGENT
@@marklawd91only dumb sheep say shit like this.
I left a review for my friends on FB that read
"I've taken a whole day to digest and think about, Leave The World Behind the movie on Netflix.
Conclusion, it is 2 hours and 21 minutes of my life that I will NEVER get back.
The movie is agonizingly slow, plodding from one useless and unbelievable point to another.
I don't know which character was the worst, Julia Roberts' always angry woman or the Myha'la Herrold's overty racist character. Ethan Hawk's completely spinless character. Kevin Bacon will probably go into hiding after accepting a part in this movie and is only in the movie because the son (a total dick)... SPOILER, had his teeth "fall" out (this was a gnarly scene). Mahershala Ali who finally gets to play a good guy was the only character who wasn't totally annoying.
There was no rhyme or reason, point or even a specific direction this film followed.
Julia Roberts may not have damaged her career image but it sure wasn't helped by this film... screaming at deer... really.
The only one who got a "happy ending" was the otherwise forgettable character, the daughter, Rosie.
I would say if you have a choice between watching this movie and a root canal, hit up your dentist, now."
😂👏perfectly worded! Haha although I do hate the dentist!!
Don't forget about the son spanking the monkey to phone photos! There's your happy ending.
Julia Roberts didn't even have to act for this role. She seemed just like she would be in real life
I heard they didn't tell the actors they were going to do this which is why her reaction seems so genuine, because it is.
During the movie, I kept checking how much of it was left. At about the halfway point, I was about 50/50 to turn it off, and boy I sure wished that I had done exactly that. What a stinker.
Me too. I kept wanting to fast forward. It was so slow paced and boring
Saw the movie. Freaked me out. This current administration has set us up for something exactly like this to happen
@@annettemcdonald5633Will you stop buying into the delusion that these administrations are any different from each other? There is only one political governing system in place in America and It's owned and controlled by the haves (wealthy elite).
I was halfway and turned it off. I finished it the next day, only because I wanted to see Kevin Bacon!! LOL...too bad, thumbs down.
Same!
Just saw this movie and immediately went looking for reviews. I completely agree with your assessment. I was waiting for some kind of resolution that never came.
I feel like everyone has missed the point of this ending. Or are choosing to ignore it. Makes me feel like this guy didn't even watch the movie and copied someone else's review. The characters aren't supposed to be likable. I feel like that's obvious and intentional. The acting was very high grade for an apocalyptic type of movie. The setting felt very immersive. Its dreadully realistic. The dialogue wasn't corny, all the writing was fantastic. It takes place within the Mr. Robot universe. Everything that's happening makes a lot of sense and how it's connected. I haven't read a criticism of this film that was valid. They are just stupid
@@DavidFinniit just felt like barley anything happened. I felt like a spent the whole 2 hours waiting for the plot to actually take off but then it just ended abruptly
@DavidFinni the main cristcism of the movie is that it lacks a resolution. The characters act beyond what can be considered normal (the daughter is 13 and still does the most retarded shit) and there are a myriad of plot points that are just forgotten. It's like if someone took the first half of a horror movie and stretches it out to 2 hours. what do the deer do? How are the involved in this? The movie is literally half finished.
the message of the whole film is consumerism has overtaken us, we care more about our phones and entertainment than the real world and the well-being of our families. At the end, we become Rose, desperate to watch the last episode instead of focusing on the outside world. Rose read the alert message saying that there radiation in the air, get to shelter. But once she seen the dvd's, she completely forgot about saving her family from exposure. It's devastating watching her sit there with a smile on her face when everyone else is dying.
The director knew exactly what he was doing. Genius film.
Maybe deep down.. that message is rubbing people the wrong way. People want to ignore that thats how our culture is. That what Rose did is inside the viewer also. So many remakes and sequels these days.. I love how this movie made you think. A lot of questions with few answers, but that's what's great about it. I'm glad the rotten tomatoes score is going up at least on the critic front, at 75 now. I first saw it around 55 percent or so on there, and I was so confused. I expected much higher. The audience score however, is currently lower than some of the worst netflix originals.. maybe people don't appreciate good acting? Obviously a decent amount of people just don't get it, I didn't get the Barbie movie so each their own.@@marklawd91
All I have to say is that this was Red Herring the movie. all suspense, no payoff. I ended off so mad
Zero payoff what so ever, these writers have no originality Jordan Peele wannabes. he ruined movies
@@walkerm4904nah, if any modern writer/director ruined a bunch of movies inspired by their work, that dishonor definitely goes to Joss Whedon and maybe JJ Abrams.
For the last few years, I've been watching more movie roasts than movies. 😅
War of the worlds plot mixed with friends. The movie we never asked for.
Well the author of the book certainly thought it needed to be adapted.
You gotta realize no movie creator or writer is waiting for a random civilian to give them a green flag/validation for their work. You don't like it you just move on.
@@tumahaji8350you can do the same thing with RUclips comments dude 😂
OK I had issue with so many things. What's the point of the shed? Why was the little girl so odd. What's up with the Spanish lady on the side of the road? Why did the mural behind the bed change? I kept seeing things that never got explained...... It drove me crazy. 12:01
The movie was literally all about ambiguity and questions
Racism duh
Spanish lady was just saying that she had been walking forever and needed to get home, that a plane had been spraying red gas, and that she wanted to use his phone.
Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a panicked person who doesn’t speak English as a first language.
There’s not much mystery behind her.
Source - Can understand Spanish
This movie reminded me of the happening but nothing is really happening 🤣
EXACTLY
Yeah I agree. At least with the happening you can laugh at the stupidity. This was just a bad boring movie
@@DG_253 I found my self checking how long was left because I was waiting for the climax/ resolve 🤦🏾♂️
Damn, and nothing really happened in The Happening either. There must be a whole lot of nothing happening in this movie.
I think that’s the point that either isn’t delivered effectively by the film or goes over the viewers heads. Nothing is happening, it’s about paranoia and how each character (and people in general) react to being suddenly cut off from media/ communication and faced with what we can assume is the collapse of American society. I just finished the movie and aside from blowing out my speakers from that F-king terrible noise, I thought it was thought provoking and eerie in a “how safe are we really?” kind of way.
I've watched this movie yesterday. In the first 20 minutes I was hoping everyone would die a painfull death. I can't recall characters more anoying than those in this f'ing movie!
My partner is autistic and we believe that the girl obssessed with Friends was supposed to be autistic too. She heard the sirens before anyone else (sensory acuity) had an hyperfocused personality (Friends, dears, the ship...) and she had what we call the "Hollywood autistic stare", the only way movies know how to imply autism without saying. And she survives because of her quirks (wich is another obvious trope in those movies).
Anyways, the movie was crap. As you said, it had everything we had seen before, just slower and dumber.
It amazes me that this has 75% on Rotten Tomatoes and 6.6 on imdb as of this posting. This was by far the worst movie I've seen in the past decade. But not "so bad that it's good" because that would be okay. Its like the bartender that would be funny and cool if she was an intentional asshole, but she's just a boring jerk who ignores you and pours weak drinks.
Alcoholist entered the conversation
You need to look at the user reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, rather than the critics.
Its obviously an awful movie.
Whats funny though. I knew the end was gonna be bad from reading the reviews.
But because they played the friends theme as the last scene, it just left me happy and smiling! 😂
I like that you said in Twister there were actual stakes. It’s true. There was a scene featuring actual steaks!
I think you needed to do a spoiler review on this one because you just can't say how awful it is without spoilers I think.
😂I agree!! Let’s hear the roast now
What is there really to spoil? Very little actually happens because unless there's some sort of giant transport vehicle moving at high velocity toward someone or deer crowding around people, almost nothing actually happens in this movie. The moment when George and that annoying racist chick (honestly it's an accurate description of both women in this movie) show up presented some genuine suspense because nobody has any idea who each other are, but beyond that first night, there isn't really that much natural tension that isn't contrived even though the situation itself is a perfect source of drama all on its own. Most of the suspense for a huge chunk in the middle of the movie comes entirely from the music playing than from anything that's actually happening on screen. It's never a good sign when you find yourself more interested in what was going on off screen than what's happening right in front of you.
@@Tyler_Wand if Julia Roberts’ character was soooo worried about the strangers in the house possibly molesting her kids, why the hell did she sleep in until 10am and tell her daughter to go run off and play by herself!!! Incoherent!
The ship at the beginning is a Trojan horse.
There are signals of this when George talks about the ‘I love you’ virus. Which was actually a Trojan horse virus.
A typical New York family (rich white people) travel to a charming country home (a mansion) far away from the city (Long Island) where they face a terrifying ordeal (no wifi).
This film is about the importance of collecting physical media.
And canned goods.
Unironically, this is what it's literally about. Thanks
Haha. I gave all of my CDs (a couple hundred) to a friend 15 years ago after I copied them to an external drive and I regret it now. Learned my lesson, still have most of our DVDs and some Blueray discs. Kevin Bacon's character is Hollywood over the top ridiculous. So intentionally unhelpful to someone he knows well after a mere 2 days = trying too hard to create fake tension.
The film is about how coup d'etat would look like in the US, if it actually happens
@@EvilMonkey7818trying too hard to create fake tension describes this entire movie. I can't imagine why when the situation itself is fertile ground for plenty of drama all on its own...
We watched it last night (and yeah it was horrible. in the end we said: "The Happening did this better."); but the point i came on to make was that when we say the "Act 2" card, we went... "huh? what was act one? Was there a title to it?" For some movies like Kill Bill, it made sense. But for this, it just let us know that 1. how far in to the movie we were, and 2. that this was probably supposed to be a tv series and not a movie.
haha. I actually quoted some of mark Wahlbergs lines from that movie while watching this. it really reminded me of The Happening
No, they were parts to the attack. lol Which they explain later on in the movie when he breaks down how to take a country down.
I kid you not. If I'm lying, I'm dying. I watched this with my folks, and my dad said "is this gonna be like The Happening?" Lol
I can not get my head arounf how many people do not like this movie!
Its the best film ive seen in so long!
I thought it was original and super suspenseful, it had me gripped all the way though!
I think you have to have a good attention span and have knowledge about whats happening in the world (things we dont see) and i think you have to know about subliminal messages to "get it"
Its a very cool idea, but they did not delivered in a cool way I think.
You must be living under a rock. Maybe engage your brain a little when consuming media.
Bruh... I liked the "idea" of the movie, but the execution of the film was terrible. They dont need to explain everything every 5 minutes of dialogue, its so sad. Waiting for a spoiler rant review!
Around halfway I just skipped through the movie looking at fast forward panels to see if anything interesting happened
‘The animals are trying to warn us’ okay how? The radiation was already setting in. What would following the deer do?? 😂 my gf said the same thing you did about the acts and my exact answer was Tarantino is the only one who does it right. Great actors cannot carry a bad movie anymore. I’m tired of movies having such build up to absolutely nothing. It’s a trend going on. And the director had a few good shots but his fading in and out and twirling was annoying. Also why is there a random shed in the back of the house that doesn’t seem to be owned by G.H. that some squatter has been in. What was the point of that plot point?? Bacon should’ve had a bunker, not just chilling in his house lol
Yeah the ending a lazy shame and especially w all the talent involved so surprised they couldn’t join forces to ensure a great ending to what I thought was a good story concept.
Comment section confirms that people watch movies these days waiting for the end credits and a huge payoff. It's weird how people can't be left alone to do any actual thinking, but have to be given answers on a silver platter so they can hop on to the flick to keep the dopamine flowing.
@@hapotus410 If you're building up a mystery-box you have to give answers to the questions you raised at some point. What they did wasn't even an ending it was just a cut and done. Claiming that an "ending" like that leads to "actual thinking" is just a lazy excuse since the topics are way too basic to inspire discussion. It's bad writing no matter how much you belittle the people that don't like it.
You nailed it. Super bummed that the actors wasted their time on this script. The allegory is obvious and pandering. The ending is atrocious.
the ending really was completely awful. my wife read the book and she refused to watch the movie since she hated the book.
Its obviously an awful movie.
Whats funny though. I knew the end was gonna be bad from reading the reviews.
But because they played the friends theme as the last scene, it just left me happy and smiling! 😂
I don't hate on every Netflix like some people do, but this one was particularly bad. Straight up boring!
Instead of the girl being obsessed with the vomit-inducing "Friends" show, it should have been "Everybody Loves Raymond." In fact, the movies should have been two minutes of this vulgar cast and then two hours of ELR reruns... at least we would have had some entertainment.
Everybody Loves Raymond is my jam!
I thought this movie was excellent. It opened up the idea of internal fractures and how they can manifest as external issues. There were no ghosts or monsters, the fear was human.
I liked it a lot as well. I feel as if some ambiguity is good as most stories really have to treat the viewer as a moron to convey something
Trust, you guys aren't wrong in your creeping suspicion. Most people who disliked this film really just needed an enema, direct injection, IV drip, espresso, turbo shot of action film or romance drama/comedy so they don't have to be threatened with thinking before they go to bed, absolute troglodytes.
In elementary school writing we learn “show not tell”, which means your story should show what it intends to be about through action, dialogue, setting, etc, instead of explicitly saying it. This movie clearly didn’t get the memo that your viewer should be able to take away the theme and lesson without a main character having to wrap it all up in the end with “information he knew about but didn’t want to share in case he was wrong”.
There was nothing deep about this movie. It was incredibly surface level in every single way. It is infuriating that this is considered top-notch these days. The public deserves better.
I’ve seen a lot of comments talking about how “deep” this movie is and how it “really makes you think” so it’s very sobering to see others with the same opinion. I didn’t find any depth at all in the film. It’s disappointing since the premise of the movie leaves room for so much to work with but the execution was awful. The deep topics people bring up are extremely basic like how it shows everyone is too reliant on technology. Okay? What other movies are people watching if this is the bar for a thought provoking movie? It’s absurd.
The people claiming that the movie is "deep" are just outing themselves as shallow and ignorant (or they're lying for some reason). The concept would have been better as a series but the unlikeable characters make that basically impossible.
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yeah it was an interesting choice to make every single character borderline unwatchable. I think a series could have been better but the topics were far too broad sweeping to sum up in a movie. @@HunterSThompson123
Just listen to the dialogue in the opening scene. Julia Roberts couldn't give more of an info dump if she tried. I felt that between it and the credits running and ridiculous camera work I should turn it off in the first 20. Definitely should've
This movie sucked. There is a lot of political messaging and the characters make a lot of dumb decisions just to make the plot work.
Cry more, boomer
Great review. Most exciting build up of this movie were the Julia Roberts interviews where she listed three things sbe wouldn't do that she did when she was younger. One was not plucking her eyebrows. I think that level of suspense must carry over to the film and is reflected in your review. Did you like August: Osage County with Julia Roberts? Thanks Adam!
Similar thing happened to me. The Mrs. put this one on. We fast forwarded the last 20 minutes we just couldn’t get through this boring bad bad movie. I also feel like it ended right when it could be interesting.
Its because your "Mrs" likes Julia Roberts, and maybe hunky E. Hawke, and scrolls through social media, and follows INFLUENCERS.
I bet you guys sat down to watch "Barbie" together too. After all, it's by Gerwig who is so talented, right? No fiendish nepotism and celebration because
she's a woman. Dude, chances are, if it's recommended by a typical American woman, it's going to be typically bad. And bad for all the same usual reasons.
@@hmicky-mickey no my girlfriend just likes bad movies dude who cares this the internet not real life go outside don’t take things so seriously
@@DG_253 You're right. Wait, what was this all about again?
@@hmicky-mickey hey it’s in the past. We’re all adults here
Review well done. You're absolutely right in your assessment of this clumsy and frustrating dump of a movie.
I watched this with my girlfriend and her roommate and there was an audible groan from all three of us at the end. It’s the type of movie that keeps you invested but leaves no satisfaction.
Well that’s the point, your so focused on your fix of getting a satisfying ending(the girl wanted to just finish the last season of friends the whole time everything is happening) that you don’t see the collapse of everything around you, also another play on the whole friends thing is the song, trying to tell us that if the world did collapse we would have to rely on each other. But the whole movie just shows distrust between the characters Everything is symbolic in this movie, and it for sure went over all 3 o y’all heads. And if you can’t correlate these to real life I think you need to pay attention to what happens in the world more and in movies😂
seriously, "audible groan" LOL please, i feel so sorry for people like this. great film.@@connorhouston2628
@@connorhouston2628So you're saying that when people seek entertainment they actually wanna be entertained? Wowser!
@@connorhouston2628I keep seeing people like you dismiss criticism by saying the movie “went over someone’s head,” I promise it didn’t and it isn’t as deep as you think it is. The characters were suspicious but ultimately very trusting of each other. This movie is not very good please watch more movies and the criticism people have clearly goes over YOUR head. The exposition and line delivery is immensely horrible. The shot composition tries way too hard to be innovative to the point all of the scenes are shot so similarly and with the lame zoom/ panning nonsense repeatedly. The writing is fairly poor, there is very little suspense because not much happens and every time something does it leads to something mundane and anti climactic. This movie is just boring conversation after boring conversation and ultimately builds to absolutely nothing despite what little profundity can be extracted tbh
@Sluglove sorry but the film did indeed go over your head. The film does a fantastic job at exposing who is a sheep and who isn't.
Very important film about how we prioritse entertainment instead of reality and how we ignore nature when its trying to tell us something.
The director knew exactly what he was doing with the ending. Are you a sheep (rose) or not (Someone that isn't obsessed with phones and TV shows and video games).
genius ending.
When she started dancing I turned it off the whole movie was cringe af the soundtrack didn’t match the movie at all wtf
100% agree with you. This movie is SO lame and pointless. And now, there is a bunch of edgy Tiktokers saying “If you did not like it it’s cuz u did not understand it” lmao 🤣
I agree! The movie was horrible and I'm tired of ppl acting like it was deep.
I hate movies with these types of endings. "Let the viewer decide the ending in their own minds" WTF! Shouldn't I have to join SAG before writing the end to this movie?!?!?
Seriously!
My favorite thing about this movie was this review!!
It was a great movie!!!!!!
Thankyou! I'm baffled by all the good reviews. This just seemed like a crappy M Night Shyamalan co-production with Bad Robot. It was a mystery box with nothing inside it and reminded me a lot of The Happening.
Not great, but at least it wasnt unwatchable shit like Sound of Freedom. That movie and people who like it suck.
"That movie and people who like it suck?"
Personal attacks, eh?
PSA, it's still illegal and immoral to [REDACTED] children.
So.... keep it in your pants.
@@zoch9797 cry more QAnon creep.
I thought it was really good.....
Just finished it and came here hoping I wasn't the only one....I was NOT.😆
A co worker recommended this to me. I will never speak to her again.
Good for her
My family just watched it , i feel robbed of 2.5 hours of my life 😢
I should have learned my lesson with Squid Game or Bird Box. When Netflix puts out a propaganda movie that trends #1, and has everyone talking it usually is TRASH.
This was no different.
Wow. I’m glad I grew up with shows like Sesame Street and Barney so I can just use my imagination. That was the point I suppose.
I love all reviews that say the kids were a great part of this. Thank you thank you thank you for saying the contrary. For me they were the absolute worst part. And the most “movie kids” I’ve seen in a long time. Like they literally went into a creepy ass shed with an imprint of a body and neither one was freaked out. They are both so robotic trash characters. Like I get the sibling rivalry but no this is crap. The kid wakes up and pull out a tooth and before he can be freaked out about it he continues to pull out teeth like that’s a great idea???? This film is just so lazy about everything.
I agree that this wasn't good. I was the film equivalent of blue balls. I almost turned it off several times, and then they'd dangle an inkling of an interesting concept...and then it wouldn't pay off. A guy at work was all about this film, but nothing happens. I can't tell whether they think people are gonna clamour for a sequel or something, but what a lousy movie. You know what this reminded me of? Shyamalan's "The Happening"
I will say, though, that I thought Tesla gave them some ad money at one point. But I'm fairly confident that's not the kind of ad they were hoping for.
We canceled Netflix because no one in my family was watching it anymore. The last decent show I saw was Wednesday with Jenna Ortega.
Yea it's not our most viewed service either. Lately there's been a few decent things on there, and they always have good stand up comedy. I probably watch Hulu and Amazon Prime the most.
Even that sucked lol
She's a hottie !
Ditto
Thank you, couldn't even make it half way through this bore fest. Agree totally with everything you said. Glad I walked away when I did.
I paused it almost halfway through and got some wine. An hour and a few quick glasses later I watched the second half. More proof that we often make poor decisions while drinking. Sitting on the porch watching traffic go by would have been a better use of time.
@@EvilMonkey7818 Hilarious!
Ha! Couldn’t have said it better myself. Your review was 100x more entertaining than that garbage fire I just watched burn down slowly for 2.5 hours. 🙄
I laughed so much during this movie. I almost feel bad for Julia Roberts, and I’m very concerned about the Obamas’ judgment.
Insipid script. No subtleties or nuance. The only tension comes from the music. Nothing (NOTHING) at stake.
Very lazy ending and this movie didn’t need to be over 2 hours if they weren’t going to explain anything at all, And we already seen a better version of this movie this year with a Knock at the Cabin that was done in 1 hour 40 minutes not 2 hours and 20 minutes
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The message is awful, liberal, and depressing. The characters are all brain dead besides kevin bacon’s character. The ending is awful.
Maybe call it "Karen Versus the Apocalypse." Seemed a satire about white privilege, and at times came close to breaking the fourth wall. Kept waiting for one of the characters to wink at the camera. And then it would go back to being a "serious" movie. Pick a lane, please. I mostly agree with your review. I was barely holding on, kept thinking to turn it off, but hung in there.
Worst movie I’ve seen in a while. I wished had watched this review before I saw this and saved myself 2 hours. I enjoyed Alas, Babylon novel from 1959 more.
sigh. real-life between "spectacular: movies and their reviewers on youtube.
The style of the movie reminds me a bit of an even bigger stinker - 'Don't Look Up' which was the most cringe attempt at satire in film history. Though this isn't nearly as awful as that meandering film it is boring and the only likeable characters are the two fathers. The two adult women are both paranoid, racist bitches whose only real purpose in the movie is to heighten interpersonal tension for everyone, since the world ending/attack plot is lacking in potency.
I just watched it and it was 2 hour or so more of my life i'll never get back. It was way too slow and heavy on boring dialog.
The racism was not subtle, even when it was couched in metaphor; and it sure wasn't against blacks. The plot was meandering and silly (apparently pilots and captains can't operate ships and planes without computers - and animals tell us to run for our lives without doing so themselves - in this mess of a film), and one is left with the creepy feeling that certain elites would love to execute this sort of terrorist act because "humans are bad".
The obamas produced it
I thought it might be interesting so I started it, but soon started wishing it would be over soon. I liked some of the photography; the upside down, sideways pans were probably the best parts. I really had to force myself to watch the whole thing, and I did make it to the end. But without any sense of satisfaction. Time spent watching a bad movie is not the same as time lost. It makes us appreciate more; the good movies. The final explanation was very shallow and way too speculative. The characters were not true even to themselves. Each person had a potential, but none were fully realized. The story elements left a lot of holes and open ends. Two big thumbs down.
There was a part where Julia Roberts walks up some stairs and down a hall that I watched several times. I still can't really figure out that shot unless there was a lot of CGI trickery in it.
After watching the whole movie it felt as if I only watched a half of a movie. Talk about major failure of bringing conclusion to a storyline. I would have been at least more satisfied even if it had a bad ending, but this had no ending at all.
I didn’t catch racists vibes at all from Julia Robert’s. I caught racist vibes from G.H.’s daughter, who said in a scene; “I don’t like them because their white.”
I was a tad dumbfounded they actually put that in the script.
I know.. and to know the Obamas produced it … 🙀
You gave no indication that you understood this film in the slightest bit 😂
It's not deep at all
Movie is horrible. Makes no sense. So technology fails and the world fall apart in a couple of days? Might I remind whoever wrote this that there are someone us alive when there were no cell phones, No GPS (I went to flight school in the 80s and the best we had were VOR stations). No G1000 displays, all steam gauges. Low end planes did not have auto pilots. Cars were all old school, no fancy electronics, distributor cap no on board computer. My Suzuki Samurai didn't come with a radio. I had to install one after market. I remember using something called a map for land navigation in the military and my wife always had the map and was the navigator. TV was analog with rabbit ears, no cable and we had NBC, CBS, ABC, WOR, WPIX and PBS (NYC). AM/FM analog radio of the air. No VHS, DVD. Everything was hard wired, no digital switching and nothing was connect to one another. TV were Black and white and worked on tubes. Then U turned them on they took a little while to heat up and come on. In college I used a manual typewriter to do my papers. No word processors. Research was done by going to the library and check out a thing called a book.
My point is we lived in the 60s and 70s without the technology we have today and still went about or daily lives. It is so stupid to think that in a few decades we have become so dependent on technology that if it failed the would would instantly fall apart. And FYI, even on newer fancy airplanes with all the G1000 modern glass cockpits, U still have old traditional steam gauges as backup in a emergence. If my autopilot started to misbehave, I would simple pull the mechanical circuit breaker and shutdown the autopilot or any other computer system. If U want a movie on what happens on an aircraft when the world goes to crap, I highly recommend Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks. A 100% better movie and a true story. Kevin Bacon is in that one also. Don't waste ur time with Leave the Wold Behind. A waste of some very talented actors. I am a fan of all of them. Only reason I tuned in.
It's not just that technology is failing, it's that it's actively being used against us. Everything is run by technology and is vulnerable to cyber attack on a grand scale. Humans are already entirely dependent on technology and power. If I lose power, I don't even have running water. It's game over if it happens to an entire country at the same time.
Horrendous movie. Always enough expense just to let you down.
I didn't mind the ending, but it was the process of reaching there! The story development was boring and tedious, there was some cool scenes and plots but then it went nowhere! What a waste of time.
Briliant movie. It takes a special kind of ignorant to avoid the warnings of this movie. Only those that drive consumerism will look the other way. Hey "Don;t Look Up"!
This is an ignorant answer. What the message of the movie? Enlighten us. Don’t drive electric cars, reject reliance on technology? Carry cash in case you are exposed to isolate radiation in a group of people and need to buy medicine so your teeth don’t fall out? Technology has brought the world together. Encouraged understanding and made parts of the world that were deserted and forgotten about accessible. It has provided medicine, food, water and sustainable solutions for these necessities to parts of the world where people died of hunger, lack of medicine, and drinking water. It helped us learn about other cultures. It helped us connect with families, friends, and strangers on other sides of the country or across the world. It has saved lives through breakthroughs in medical procedures and solutions for people with disabilities.
Lol just watched this. Such a waste of time. The only reason people are watching it is because they name checked the Obama's
If you try to think about some themes and the characters, there is a lot of sense with that ending. I hate to say it, but I think you didn’t get it…
It is not a perfect movie, but I liked it. It felt somewhat realistic, even if it’s a little mean spirited (thinking that all humans are kind of bad).
Classic.
I am going to be one of the few it seems that actually liked this movie. I do agree that the ending was not great and I have a few questions about some of the things that happened. That said, I am a sucker for apocalyptic movies. I think what won me over for this movie was it had great tension build-up throughout the movie as things became more and more ominous. I have read that the book left more of an open question as to what happened. But what I did like about the explanation given is it seems like one of the most realistic I have heard in a apocalyptic movie. Also there is a monologue near the end that Julia Roberts gave in the Shed that I could really relate too. I certainly would not say this is the best apocalyptic movie, but it kept me interested even if the end didn't bring it home.
Nothing about this was realistic at all. Usually buildup is suppose to come with some sort of an explanation or at least some substance. This was a waste of money and time.
@@thepharaohxciii I think the explanation GH gives in the car is pretty realistic as something that COULD actually happen. Especially if you watching how the world is right now. Now did the actual end of the movie bring it home. Nope, and I said as much in my comment. As far as waste of money, it didn't cost me anything except my subscription to netflix which I would have paid weather I watched the movie or not.
After finishing it the first thing i did is googling ‘why leave the world behind is sooooo bad’
I watched it last night. You are right, the ending sucked!
I wish I hadn’t wasted my time watching it. The ending was just so disappointing and bad. Imagine you’re watching a film and you’re just getting into it and waiting for what’s just about to happen when adverts come on and you have to wait till the adverts stop, accept there are no adverts it’s the end of the film that’s how bad.
I really liked this film. Love the shots cuts and music. It has me in the entire time.
I enjoyed the movie as well lol. I have the pitch forks, lets go get Adam!
i know right. music, cinematography, acting and suspense were all great. everyone that disliked this movie is a very.. specific kind of movie watcher.
I thought it was great too! I liked not having closure for everything. Left me wanting more, which to me is a good thing sometimes.
@@BTOP36 exactly, the author of the book it's based on even said it's necessary in this kind of story to leave some aspects of the story to the audience's imagination, which is parallel with what i've read about other directors' opinions on similar films. it's important! some people just don't like it, which i get, what i don't get is how a lot of those people let it ruin the whole thing for them. they call it "slow" and "disappointing" because they weren't given answers for everything.
I get movies nowadays are suppose to keep us on edge and make it suspenseful, but I never felt that in movies, either give us answers or give us an ending we can live with, not America falling and some girl watching Friends, it feels like the producers just went "We like friends, so we'll make a character that's obsessed with it and convince people to watch the show.... oh and there's a cyberattack"
Personally, I never enjoyed Friends-- neither the show nor its characters/setting ever did anything for me.
This movie is 🐶 💩
So far you have remand the most honest critic. Keep up the good work. This film was crap. They are running out of ideas. haha. It tries to be clever hahaha. Keep doing what you are doing my man. Fuck the haters. lol. Have a mint day boss
Thank you so much, youve helped me so much dealing with this bullshit. I finished the movie and felt sick… the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen. Copycat bullshit
I'm so glad to see I wasn't the only one with this opinion. I often go watch movie scores on imdb after I've watched them and usually be shocked at their score.
This movie felt so incredibly empty, even though it's 2 hrs long, you can recap the whole story in 30 seconds. The movie has totally no direction and explains absolutely nothing of what's happening or why things happen. Some of the roles make zero sense as well. The dad being a teacher and has zero social skills or logical thinking, making him come off as a total loser. This bothered me the most to be honest.
Awful waste of time..
me and my friends says "is that it? wow that's trash"
All I have to say is Jenga😂😂😂
THANK YOU! (8 minutes in now) I was trying to remember what specific movie this reminded me of last night. It was Twister. I was thinking that maybe Volcano, because of all the forced racism commentary, but it was Twister. Maybe a combination of the two.
thank you for doing the lords work
Thank you for validating my thoughts. I was so frustrated, I felt like I did not get it.
It's like Netflix asked an AI to write a script not too good, not too bad, but just enough to keep people watching for 2+ hours, or just to see the train wreck.
If it wasn't for Julia Roberts I would have stopped the movie after 10 minutes. When I saw her looking at the camera, I immediately lowered my expectations, just maybe I can enjoy this.
I was just stupid.
The stupid deer had no point. People flirting weirdly just to run the clock. Making stupid promises, not watching over their own kids just so that stupid things can happen.
Even Kevin Bacon, being a prepper, and after a lot of stupid dialog and time consuming tension, he just takes the money! What is he going to do with money?
After the movie ended I had to watch the first episode of The Last of Us just to forget about this bad movie.
Things to Google for this movie:
QR code and lake Shawnee amusement park
Scott v sandford ( the names of the families)
Fort Mose and Point Comfort (the hwy signs when they turn off to go to house)
The year 1619 (the radio station in the car)
White lion ship (the beached freighter)
They live next to the Huxley's referring to Aldos Huxley
At the end Rose finds safety in the house of the Thorns
Tons of Easter eggs and symbolism in this movie. It might make it more interesting for you.
I wouldn't even bother to watch it, and you say it stinks so for sure I wouldn't watch it. Julia Roberts is still hot as hell, but I am not going to watch a movie just for that. Forget it.
The Cinematography was great though
Love how no one’s talks about Ruth being blatantly racist as well
😂😂😂😂😂 you are so on point on all of these man so disappointing. All these movies focus on driving box office number by overhyping the trailers. Almost feels like the make trailers first then build non sensical movies around it. So annoyed by everyone who thinks this was a brilliant movie...ughh
Indeed-- even 1979's The China Syndrome from Columbia Pictures, w/Fonda, Douglas and Lemmon, was more than 25K times better, IMO.
This was one of the most disappointingly simplistic movie I’ve ever seen.
After the end, I looked for a place to rant and warn others.
This movie reminded me of M Night Shamalan and suspenseful and kept expecting something, BUT NOTHING HAPPENS ITS RIDICULOUS. Also, they had to make sure to say some woke crap, "YOU CANT TRUST WHITE PEOPLE." Why throw that in your crappy movie? The ending was literally the daughter getting to see the last episode of Friends.
The only amazing thing about this film is the size of Julia Robert's nostrils. I'm not kidding......they're HUGE! I'm surprised they all didn't climb in for safety.
True. She still looks pretty damn good though. I liked her best in “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” She was sooo hot then.
Is this movie actually a cancelled series? Because that's the impression I get from it being divided into parts 1-5. It had good buildup, but no payoff/conclusion.
You had me until you spoke ill against Twister! How dare you! That movie is a classic! 😄
I LOVE Twister!!!!
@@AdamDoesMovies Bill Paxton is a National Treasure! 🌪️🌪️🌪️
It's a wakeup movie! LIFE will imitate art. Terminator, the Matrix West World, and this movie all likely portraying the future of the world.
Movie is suppose to be about the end of everything but nothing actually ends.
Thankfully the movie did
Yeah, I didn't care for this either. They were going for some racial metaphor and it was lost on me here as Hawke's character was nice the entire time and they do kind of imply (badly) that Robert's character might be a tad racist, but she gets over it so quick it really does not land. They clearly wanted this to be some racial metaphor about when crap hits the fan people get tribal again. Kevin Bacon's character is small as a prepper type of guy that actually has stuff the other's need, but even he does not refuse at first because of race as the boy sick is white and Hawke's character is there with Ali's character. They all seem to be just initially selfish and not racist, which I actually think is kind of prudent since they never tell anyone what is happening.
With the weird animal behavior, they really needed to tell people what was going on and who is doing it, but instead make the bad decision to not do that so it is a mystery. The kids behaviors just go no where. One loses teeth but never told why. The boy is obviously liking Ali's daughter but she is kind of reverse racist, but nothing happens in this subplot and it is dropped. The 13 year old likes Friends and um "?". In fact, Ali's character is also so nice and accommodating I just do not get what the story is here. It is like they wanted to do some deep message about getting along and not being tribal and hateful, but all the characters are so nice it does not line up at all.
It was like a bad M. Night movie with a bunch of interesting ideas at first that go no where at all because the characters do not seem to know what is happening and they all get over their distrust so quickly the event no longer matters as there are no stakes.