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Kathryn Bigelow's new thriller, dynamite housereceived mixed reactions from viewers within the first 24 hours of its release on Netflix.
The film repeatedly tracks the 18 minutes after a nuclear missile is launched towards the United States from three different perspectives – first from the White House Situation Room, then from the U.S. Strategic Command, and finally from the president himself.
*Warning – major spoilers dynamite house*
The identity of the man behind the missile launch has never been explained – it was Bigelow (director of war movies such as zero dark thirty and The Hurt Locker).
“Our adversary is this system that we've built to essentially end the world on a hair-trigger,” Bigelow told Netflix. tudum.
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Rebecca Ferguson in the White House Situation Room in Kathryn Bigelow's “Dynamite” (Netflix)
The film ends on an ambiguous note – the president (played by Idris Elba) decides whether to let missiles hit Chicago to avoid war or to retaliate. The missile's actual impact was never shown.
“I want audiences to leave the theater thinking, 'Okay, what do we do now?'” Bigelow told us tudum. “This is a global problem and, of course, I hope one day we can reduce our nuclear stockpile. But in the meantime, we do live in a house full of explosives. I feel it's important to get this information out so we can start a conversation. That's the explosion that interests us — the conversations people then have about this movie.”
However, many viewers took to social media to express their disappointment and discuss their disappointment with the ending.
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Another added: “I was so focused on watching this ending that I prayed for a nuke to hit me.” “Have to be included in the discussion of the worst movie endings ever.”
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Idris Elba plays US president in 'Dynamite' (Netflix)
The ending also sparked heated debate on the popular Reddit subreddit r/movies.
“I understand why they decided on this ending. I really do. But when I watched that movie, all I could think was 'people are going to hate this ending,'” one person wrote.
“I thought the first part was great, but then it started getting repetitive and draggy,” another said. “I didn't mind the cliffhanger ending, but this didn't feel like that at all. It just felt like an unfinished movie.”
Despite the complaints, dynamite house As of this writing, the critic score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes is 79%.
In a four-star review independentGeoffrey Macnab calls it “self- Dr. Strangelove“.
“Seventeen years ago, Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. The Hurt Locker (2008). Has she accomplished a similar feat? dynamite house – Be the first woman to win two — and this new feature shows that she can still hold her own when it comes to smart, adrenaline-filled drama. “
dynamite house Now streaming on Netflix.