Leave the World Behind (2023)

[Nunab18]

An OK movie, but I'm a sucker for this sort of ~survival/apocalyptic/thriller film, so I gave it a biased 3 instead of a 2 in the poll. I think the acting is pretty good, the cinematography is also good. Special effects are pretty nice at times, bad at others.

[Show spoiler]A large chunk of my issues with this film are some of the ridiculous things that happen... Like guy walking onto the beach, not seeing the wreckage and bodies everywhere and being surprised when he picks the watch off the ground. Or... when they're on the road and come across a Tesla traffic jam and there are like 30 white Tesla sedans, why are they all white? Is there a Tesla dealership on Long Island that only sells white Model 3s. The deer also make zero sense. Every single thing in the film points to it being some sort of cyber attack or terrorism. Why have the deer of Long Island formed some sort of hive mind and stare awkwardly at people in the woods? Why is there a shack in the woods with a chair and an obvious furrow where someone has been sleeping on the ground. Why is everyone so overtly racist? There is more, but damn...

I wasn't turned off by the ending like some others appear to be, seemed to be very in line with where the trajectory of the movie was headed. I don't understand why its controversial at all.