Katherine Bigalow is one of the best. This was pretty intense thriller. The story unfolds in Rashomon style. You get four distinct perspectives on the same 20 minute event. It starts intense and never lets up.

  • omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    It was good, but

    spoiler

    the ending left me hanging, it never said whether the missile actually exploded when it hit

  • golli@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 month ago

    I was reasonmably entertained during my watch and initially suprised by the low letterboxd rating (atm 2.9 out of 5), but the more i think about it, the more i agree with the low score.

    Spoliers

    • It doesn’t seem realistic that they only send two interceptors

    • The whole premise of having only a tiny amount of time to decide about retaliations seems kind of pointless. It’s not like the USA doesn’t have tons of second strike capabilities and they can analyze the fallout to determine the origin. It just feels forced

    • The flashbacks means we are just constantly rehasing the same thing again, but imo are not getting anything new. It does a solid jobh building tension with the first iteration and then just resets to use the same again. We e.g. just see the weird running guy, that somehow gets to act way above his paygrade, multiple times.

    • Also personally i am kind of over these movies making the US look cool and rational, when i look at what’s currently going on over there

    For people who haven’t seen it i’d recommend Fail Safe (1964) over this one.

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Thanks for the recommendation! I already have it ready, just waiting for a time I can set aside to watch it.