LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND

★★ OUT 24 NOVEMBER (CINEMAS), 8 DECEMBER (NETFLIX) / CERT TBC / 140 MINS DIRECTOR Sam Esmail CAST Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, Kevin Bacon Based on the 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam, Leave The World Behind sees writer-director-producer Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot) rustle up a melting pot of everything that could be wrong with the state of things. Borrowing shamelessly from filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan, his personal apocalypse never settles on what it’s trying to say, from climate change to “the Koreans”. Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali make the best of a bad script, while cinematographer Tod Campbell and composer Mac Quayle create a relentless air of tension, but the film’s 140-minute runtime fails to distract from awful CG animals and clunky dialogue. It will have you…

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