Im betting on this happening to america soon
Leave the World Behind
There's no going back to normal.
Rating
3.0 (4)
Release Date
11/22/2023Runtime
140 minsOverview
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.
How It Feels
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A meticulously crafted slow-burn catastrophe where ordinary people become trapped in escalating confusion and moral uncertainty as civilization unravels. The dread accumulates not from jump scares but from the creeping realization that no one, inside or outside the house, truly understands what's happening.
Mood
ParanoidUnsettlingTenseDread-soaked
Themes
SurvivalTechnologyComing apartClass
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Single location
Reviews
Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali dance to Next "Too Close" on vinyl, and that alone makes it worth a watch.
Leave the World Behind ALMOST works for me, but the payoff never quite lands. I like all of the slow tension building of the first act, and then it sort of trails off. There are large periods where it feels like nothing significant happens, but even removing those sections and shortening the runtime wouldn't really solve it for me.
This film had <b>so much</b> potential. The scenery/setting was fitting, but the acting and dialog was just boring. They had this fantastic cast (Hawke, Ali, Bacon, Roberts), but it looks and feels like they just were just hired to draw an audience, and then fuck them over by forcing them to sit and watch a long, boring film. If that’s the case, they won.
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