Don't Look Up

Two astronomers set out to warn the public that a comet is heading straight for Earth, but their message collides with a world more interested in distraction than danger. As the threat grows, their campaign turns into a race against time and against the forces that would rather ignore the warning. The story follows their increasingly urgent effort to be heard before disaster becomes unavoidable.

Adam McKay directs this American film, which runs 138 minutes and blends comedy, drama and science-fiction with darker thriller and horror edges. Leonardo DiCaprio plays one of the astronomers, joined by Jennifer Lawrence as the other half of the pair trying to force attention onto the approaching catastrophe. Their work is framed by a media-savvy environment that turns a scientific emergency into a spectacle, while the pressure around them keeps tightening.

Set in a contemporary world that feels recognizably ordinary until the sky becomes a threat, the film uses its crisis to explore denial, panic and the uneasy gap between knowledge and action. Its tone shifts between satire and dread, letting the absurdity of public response sit beside the scale of the danger. The result is a sharp, uneasy disaster story with a cynical edge.