It's okay, it's solid, for the most part it is how the people react. Not sure why americans always have to put riots in movies, we barely saw any riots during wwp and now in ww3 too, and those that we did see, were mostly about other things.
What would made it better tho, would be if both sides were doing something really dumb, which is what we saw during pandemic, here only one side is dumb, and the other side is aware, but, important thing is that no one does anything to solve their problem, the scientists are answering stupid questions all day long, while unchecked billionaires are looking how to profit out of mass extinction, which is exactly what happened, so it's very much hit and miss.
The president is to a large degree a crossover between trump and hilary for sure, an ugly old woman in bed with oligarchs, that's hilary part of it, and having family members embedded into high positions of power, and being rude those parts were very trumpian. And ugly hats were also clear nod to trump. But as I previously stated, the duality of madness is only allowed to one side, which makes it unrealistic. Like, main reason why people on one side were so adamant about not getting vaxxed and relying on dewormer, is cause the other side insisted that a medicine that entire global south depends on, is horse dewormer. Anyone who knew it was primarily human medication, would instantly lose all respect for the other side. And the other side forfeited their credibility over nothing. That is not conveyed in movie, they clearly made one side sane and the other one insane.
One part that maybe deserved more focus, was when americans blew up Russian-Chinese mission to save the planet. That was just a throwaway line, and characters, all but one, heard about that mission only then when it was destroyed. Same as we did. It could have been something they talked about, hoped for, banned from participating in, tons of things, but none of that, it was just a throwaway thing, like producers wanted to say "we acknowledge that the rest of the world exists, but they don't matter".
However all of that could be overlooked, but the main problem was that cast is all these overused actors that at this point you can't see as anything else but what they are. You're watching fat LDC and everyone pretends like he's looking good, which he didn't even before gaining weight, but especially after, and, I mean, it's LDC, we know who he is, why are we pretending he's an authority on astronomy and can do math? Similar problem with rest of the cast, like most of them are too recognizable that you're not buying any of it. It was even hard watching strip and hill act like mother and son, while not selling it at all, and you knowing that the two aren't related, so then you get how impossible it was to recognize that these characters are anything more but these very famous actors reading lines. Yeah, this would have benefited so much from significantly less name recognition.
What would made it better tho, would be if both sides were doing something really dumb, which is what we saw during pandemic, here only one side is dumb, and the other side is aware, but, important thing is that no one does anything to solve their problem, the scientists are answering stupid questions all day long, while unchecked billionaires are looking how to profit out of mass extinction, which is exactly what happened, so it's very much hit and miss.
The president is to a large degree a crossover between trump and hilary for sure, an ugly old woman in bed with oligarchs, that's hilary part of it, and having family members embedded into high positions of power, and being rude those parts were very trumpian. And ugly hats were also clear nod to trump. But as I previously stated, the duality of madness is only allowed to one side, which makes it unrealistic. Like, main reason why people on one side were so adamant about not getting vaxxed and relying on dewormer, is cause the other side insisted that a medicine that entire global south depends on, is horse dewormer. Anyone who knew it was primarily human medication, would instantly lose all respect for the other side. And the other side forfeited their credibility over nothing. That is not conveyed in movie, they clearly made one side sane and the other one insane.
One part that maybe deserved more focus, was when americans blew up Russian-Chinese mission to save the planet. That was just a throwaway line, and characters, all but one, heard about that mission only then when it was destroyed. Same as we did. It could have been something they talked about, hoped for, banned from participating in, tons of things, but none of that, it was just a throwaway thing, like producers wanted to say "we acknowledge that the rest of the world exists, but they don't matter".
However all of that could be overlooked, but the main problem was that cast is all these overused actors that at this point you can't see as anything else but what they are. You're watching fat LDC and everyone pretends like he's looking good, which he didn't even before gaining weight, but especially after, and, I mean, it's LDC, we know who he is, why are we pretending he's an authority on astronomy and can do math? Similar problem with rest of the cast, like most of them are too recognizable that you're not buying any of it. It was even hard watching strip and hill act like mother and son, while not selling it at all, and you knowing that the two aren't related, so then you get how impossible it was to recognize that these characters are anything more but these very famous actors reading lines. Yeah, this would have benefited so much from significantly less name recognition.