Kathryn Bigelow directs Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts in this political thriller which follows the government and military handling a nuclear attack from three different perspectives.

Starts very strong. I guess the calm and clear cut professionalism of the first spin is the point. The higher up the political food chain we go the less prepared and decisive the response is. It is an exciting piece of filmmaking that makes a controversial formal choices. One that I have mixed feelings about. Also, it doesn’t really cover too much new ground than Fail Safe from 60 years ago.

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