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It began very well but ended being 90% about USA and the elections, not about 2020 for everyone...

Nevertheless, good dark humor and actores.

I'm surprised at how many people don't love this. My girlfriend and I found it hilarious. Hugh Grant is terrific as a pretentious academic, Lisa Kudrow is dead on on a gaslighting White House spokesman, Tracy Ullman is a fun queen. The jokes are clever and funny and the movie does a solid job of sketching out the insanity of 2020.

Ignore the naysayers, check this out. It's hilarious.

It is supposed to be a comedy but on the contrast I didn't laugh at all. 2020 was in fact a crazy year and we don't expect them to include everything in this film. But it's like the only focus was given on the coronavirus outbreak and the most of it about the US election and Trump administration.

Love Charlie Brooker and there are some funny moments here, but overall this feels like a bit of a wasted opportunity. It's just not that funny or witty. It feels much more heavily political than the usual end of year Screenwipes, and in quite a predictable, not very entertaining way. Shame.

WHO CARES if some of the material has made the rounds before in different forms? To see a lot of it compiled, tweaked and delivered hilariously by actors who were unwaveringly invested in their roles, was one of the best film experiences I have had this year.

What is baffling and eye-roll-worthy is the fact that some people are STILL in denial that most of what was presented (albeit with added humor) is ALSO TRUE! You see it in the "1" ratings by the brainwashed and braindead (who very much like one of the characters portrayed), can WATCH something happen - yet convince themselves they did not see what they just saw. FACTS mean absolutely NOTHING to these people and their confused, failed, ridiculous excuses get more egregious the less THEY can make sense of them. They think that by doubling and tripling down within their own alternate reality, they'll suddenly be correct and everything which has been proven through data, information, graphs, pictures, figures, indexes, videos, facts will be proven to be wrong. THAT makes this film all the more pertinent and even funnier (and a little scary)!

After causing me to laugh out LOUD for close to the 70 full-minutes of its runtime, Death to 2020 has gained a spot within my top 20 favorite movies of all time.

15/10 - EXCELLENT!

It was funny on some occasions but kind of eh on about half the film.

Overall a fun mockumentary that's funny because of how they came at everyone.

It really doesn't matter your stance, they probably made a joke about you (which is likely fueling some of the negative reviews). Yeah the jokes may be "low hanging fruit" as another review described them, but the way they are presented in succession makes this a pretty fun bout of dark humor.

Liked the idea! Lots of hilarious moments and funny actors. Sadly it heavily goes into American politics instead of talking about more global issues that would have benefited from the attention like problems in Middle East, Europe and basically anything else. Great idea though and hope we'll have something fun and better for 2021.

2020 provided a lot of material with so much potential for comedic relief, yet there weren't that many laughs in the audience when we watched. The format was odd with all of the fake characters and it was heavily US/UK focused, with disproportionate focus on US and UK politics. Again there were some funny moments but most of the jokes just seemed to fall completely flat.

A highly sarcastic take on current events around the world with quite a few witty puns. And Samuel L. Jackson. Worth the watch with your afternoon coffee.

Hilarious mockumentary. Fun way to look at 2020 and the world we live in.

It's all truth being made fun of, some people may not find it funny as they will see themselves in there and get offended.

Mostly miss to be honest. Many a YouTuber did a better job at comedic commentary on and during 2020; and in a shorter runtime no less. Lacked the edge that Charlie Brooker brought to Black Mirror.

I wasn't expecting that. Fun, hilarious take on the mockumentary style. Hugh Grant was gold and the bits with the Scientist....🤣! Samuel L. Jackson & Leslie Jones were too funny! Loved the Voice-over narration, as well.

It's mostly about the US, as expected, but it has its moments as it doesn't go too far on the jokes and some were actually pretty funny. Milioti's performance as your usual Karen was brilliant.

Probably the first comedy to make me laugh to be honest. It spoke about real stuff with such great irony, that just made a sigh of relief for me. Some things were left out (intentionally or not), but it was the perfect amount of time for a movie like this. I strongly recommend.

It's a really good mockumentary. Makes fun of the absolute irationality of this year that has passed. It isn't an easy task to do that considering how difficult this year has been. But i found myself smilling all throughout.

Netflix's new 'play something' algorithm put me on to this and I probably wouldn't have watched it otherwise. I laughed so hard the back of my head hurt. It was like watching a really good edition of SNL's 'Weekend Update' only difference being it's an hour long. Look, it's definitely for an 'Anglo' audience; for Christ's sake Hugh Grant and Tracey Ullman headline. The criticisms leveled in the reviews here are from people who were never going to like it anyway and at times the humor comes at you so fast it is like watching Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles'. The writing is comedy at its very best BY ANYONE'S standard, sometimes in your face and at other times subtle and NO ONE is spared. Others here also panned the 'Borat' movie, tell me that wasn't funny. It is so hard to sift through so much 'content' to find something worth watching , this one goes well beyond one's expectations for a good laugh. The bad reviews, as usual , are from people who don't come at this with an honest open frame of mind, if you like the movie you'll know who they are. This movie is solid eight stars, period.

Great and unexpected gem of a mocumentary, at the end of this tumultuous year! Stellar performances from Hugh Grant, Cristin Milioti and Diane Morgan in particular. You might laugh, you might cry! But I highly recommend giving it a watch.

Dont get me wrong, it was funny at times, but even more often cringeworthy. Some characters (Milotti, Kudrow, Jones) didnt work at all, some were better, but there wasnt any great one. Also, it changed from being at least a bit global to being only about USA in the process. Failed concept of a show.

Amazing way to look back 2020 with wit and fun. Very cleverly done, a perfect way to criticise the world we live in today and make us laugh about it.

A lot of negative reviews and I kind of understand them, as this is brutally honest with the both sides we are currently divided.

Great acting from all of them, but especially Hugh Grant is fantastic on this. It was funny, honest, ironic, with a lot of messages to take of (of course, nobody will take because everyone knows every thing) and well acted. What also should you expect from a mockumentary/balance of the year?

What a missed opportunity. Death to 2020 was such a good idea. But ultimately it fell so far short in an attempt to appeal to the masses.

I was hoping for a more cerebral approach from Charlie Brooker. I know that sounds pretentious but I believe Death to 2020 would have been so much more impactful (and funny) had it taken itself more seriously.

Hugh Grants character sums it up perfectly. Polarisation plagues today's society. Ironically, this film will do the same with audiences.

I was thinking this is going to be a good satire of some of the biggest events of 2020, but it turned out to be politically biased all the way. And this starts to feel in the first some 10-15 minutes. Totally anti-Trump and not directly pro-Biden, yet now it's almost 2023 and some of us can see what the reality is. It also goes all the way into pro-black propaganda, it's Samuel L. Jackson who plays it the smartass judge, from all the characters, it's only the black scientist that's telling valid things, but hey - they play it like the interviewer doesn't take him seriously, like "oh, the poor black scientist". Taking into consideration that the people of this color are the greatest criminals and the ones with the crappiest education and desire of such - no, thanks, I am not taking that cheap production. Good there's no LG...UHDTV propaganda, that's why I'm giving it two stars, otherwise it goes with one, but I am about to see what's in "Death to 2021", expecting the same s*it.