A House of Dynamite

[VegasVinny]

There seems to be very little middle ground with respect to reviews on Netflix's A House of Dynamite. It's a doomsday thriller with a Sopranos twist.

Idris Elba plays POTUS as a military base in Alaska detects a nuclear weapon off the coast of the Pacific bound for middle America. The movie captures several perspectives from bureaucrats to national security personnel to the secretary of defense to the president as their window to make decisions is extremely small.

There are a lot of acronyms thrown out throughout the film as it takes you through the Situation Room and other locations we unwashed masses will never sniff, but the producers do a good job of explaining what most acronyms mean. It's also worth mentioning that the audience hears the same conversation more than once as it hops around from character to character.

It was a dark, intense, and (darkly) thought-provoking hour and 55 minutes.

[Tony Palazzolo]

I thought it was excellent. It's hard to discuss it without ruining it for everyone.

[MikoTython]

Thanks. I’ll check this out.

[Armchair QB]

I thought it was pretty good too. Definitely worth watching.

Can’t believe the Nuke landed on Greenland and destroyed it in the beginning of the movie though. That was unfortunate

[George Zipp]

I really enjoyed this. I was worried the way the story was told that I wasn't going to like it but I appreciated the different perspectives. Also enjoyed how new information was revealed in each successive version of the story.

Also had one of the bigger holy (bleep) did that just happen moments in recent memory in a film I've watched.

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when the sec of defense was on the roof going to his chopper to get to his safe haven and knowing his daughter was in Chicago and with his clear life troubles from the phone call with the daughter he decided to just keep right on walking off the roof. WOW

[rezero]

It was a good movie as the director churns out movies that are suspenseful with a military/government backdrop.

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I cant wait for the sequel