ByPaul Tassi,
Senior Contributor.
Netflix has had a new #1 movie for a while now, its original feature A House of Dynamite, a political thriller directed by Zero Dark Thirty’s Kathryn Bigelow, starring Rebecca Ferguson and Idris Elba, documenting the panicked reaction of the US to a missile being launched at the homeland.
A House of Dynamite starts as an engaging feature, but midway through it takes a confusing turn, and then its ending is a crashed plane on a runway after failing to stick its landing. Spoilers follow.
The movie is oddly structured, replaying the 20 or so minutes while the missile is in flight among two different sets of government agencies, then finally from the President’s perspective. The result here is a movie that repeats all of its dialogue two or three times, with the other perspectives adding little after the first, mostly just the other end of a Zoom call we’ve already heard. But you think it might all be worth it when they converge in the end, the moment the missile may or may not make impact, and the President may or may not authorize retaliation against effectively the entire rest of the world, as throughout the film, they never figure out who shot the missile in the first place.
