Amanda Sanford (Julia Roberts) is an advertising executive in New York City. Her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke) is a college professor. One morning, Amanda wakes up and decides she needs to get out of the city in a hurry just to get away for a few days. With their two teenage kids, they drive out to Long Island where they rented a luxury house for the weekend.

As soon as they get there, things start going wrong. No Internet, which drives the kids crazy. No television, no cell phone signal. Apparently some unprecedented blackout has befallen the city – but for some strange reason the lights are still on.

Just as they settle down for the night, somebody knocks on the door. The owner of the home (Mahersala Ali) and his daughter are asking to spend the night. They can’t make it back to the city with the outage going on, and it’s their house, after all.

Quickly, strange things start happening. An oil tanker beaches itself, planes crash, apparent sonic booms break windows, wild deer start hanging around the house, flamingos swim in the pool and Tesla cars without drivers crash themselves into each other.

Leave the World Behind is a wanna-be doomsday movie that does not convince. The plot holes are huge, the acting is terrible and amateurish, even though there are some big name actors, like Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon.

At the end, when the movie was over, I had literally forgotten the title within minutes, and I had to look it up again just to put together this review.

You can definitely pass on this one. You’re not missing anything at all.