Although it features stars like Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke, 141 minutes is a lot of them.
It was uploaded to Netflix on December 8 Away from the worldwhich is currently the most popular content on the streaming platform – preceded by, among other things, Family bartert and new killjoyAnd others too. The post-apocalyptic drama starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Bacon (produced by Barack Obama and his wife) is an adaptation of Romain Allam’s 2020 novel of the same name. The protagonists of the story are the Sandfords (played by Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke), whose weekend is turned upside down when a global cyberattack destroys modern civilization minute by minute.
Although the film immediately jumped to the top of the Netflix TOP10, critics gave mixed reviews and viewer reaction was very divided. although Rotten tomatoes Although Távol a vilád can boast a 75 percent rating on the cash collection site, its audience rating is only 42 percent.
Many people took to social media to express their polarizing opinions about the film, with many making the same complaint: the film simply can’t explain why it has a running time of 141 minutes.
For example, one viewer commented on what he saw on X:
Leave the World Behind is a strange, often funny, often silly film, but overall it is a cynical and confusing film. It’s all come to a head, and when it does, the end result is cartoonishly pessimistic and narratively inadequate. He couldn’t care less.
Another viewer complained:
I’m watching Leave the World Behind. I’ll tell you why that was a mistake: I want to watch something else because this movie is almost two and a half hours long.
Some went on to say that:
Leave the World Behind wasn’t bad, but it shouldn’t have been nearly 2.5 hours long. If you ask me, most movies should be no longer than 1 hour and 50 minutes. But no one asked me. So I will save you all the time.