Did anyone watch "A House of Dynamite"? (Spoiler)

[bif]

With the actors involved, I had high hopes for it. I thgouth the first part of the movie was thrilling and really well done. But the ending? Or should I say "non-ending" was a huge letdown. What a waste of time. I'm glad I skipped ahead while watching and viewed it at 1.25 speed.

[TommieMommy]

1. I just finished it. It was just ok but could have been sooo much better

[badgolfer]

2. The movie sucked

I skimmed through most of the movie. What a waste as the movie could have been done in half the time.

If this is an example of the U.S. National Security system, this country is in a world of hurt.

[doc03]

3. The first half was pretty thrilling. But the last half was just a replay of the same

few minutes of the countdown in the first half. It was like someone burned the script in the middle of the movie.

[Ocelot II]

4. Haven't watched it but I read a lot of reviews that said the same thing -

that the ending was really unsatisfactory. Maybe I'll skip it.

[bif]

6. May I suggest

The film is broken up into thirds. The same occurrence told from three perspectives. Watch the first one and you'll get the idea. The rest is pretty redundant.

[NewHendoLib]

5. My wife and I loved it.

[splano]

7. Agreed

I believe the general consensus is that the first 1/3 was great; The pacing and the acting was on point.

The back 2/3 was a disappointing slog, a seemingly endless amount of shots of actors staring at various screens with a “F*ck! What do we do?” look on their faces.

[KT2000]

8. Yes, watched it!

As a person who has had lifelong effects from the Cold WA (we lived next to a potential target, Boeing) I initially saw this film as a Cold War nightmare.
As it kept replaying, I saw Hegseth, Noem, and all the other administration idiots in those places and our assured demise. At least during the Cold War I was assured there were serious. level-headed people in charge.
The only sympathy I felt in the film was when the Secretary chose not to get on the helicopter because that is the choice everyone is faced with and his was a valid option. Many of us came out of that time with an understanding that life is conditional.

I was curious why the film was made thinking it had to have been someone who experienced the Cold War but it was written by a 40-something ex-NBC News boss. Kathryn Bigelow was of the age to have experienced the Cold War and Travis Air Force Base was near where she grew up. It would be nice to hear her personal experience.

The glaring fault of the story was the omission of waiting until the bomb hit the US and then deciding.

The film affected me emotionally due to our Cold War past and now I have to realize that the people in charge of our country are incapable of handling something like this. Nothing will help us. Also, I realized young people do not have personal experience with the end of civilization as we did - now it is just trump pulling the levers.

As a film though, I did not like the clunky replaying of the same discussions. There are so many devices that could have shown it differently.

[Ilsa]

9. I could have easily handled two replays, but

the third got on my nerves, even though we got to see other stuff unrelated to the National Security Council briefing. Stuff like the deputy NSA's pregnant wife working for the senator who bolted out of a hearing and ignored her as he was leaving for Raven Rock. Or the SecDef checking out.