An asteroid named Matilda is going to crash to the earth in three weeks. It’s a state of Emergency for life as we know it. If the world were ending, would you still go to the office? Maybe. If you were in a state-of-shock like insurance man Dodge (Steve Carell) who goes about his life and even to the gym on a regular basis. That is until he’s tossed together “The Hangover” style for a roadtrip with a young neighbor, Penny (Keira Knightley) whose determined to get home to England to see her parents, her sister and her baby niece and end her life with them.
This film is Titanic without the wave since Carell is not going to die with everybody else, but he’s going to die alone. Or is he?
Not if he helps the young and enthused neighbor full of life. In this “Sky is falling” analogy we take a look at what matters in life. If we had three weeks left to live, how would we spend it? Would we travel? Would we get to the love of our life who got away? The message is don’t wait. Life is short even if an asteroid isn’t headed to earth.
This is the most powerful film I’ve seen in probably three years. It’s touching, it’s sentimental, it makes you
cry, but more than that, it makes you laugh-out-loud at what should be inappropriate times. Live your life so if you died
tomorrow, you’d have no regrets. Four tiaras