A House of Dynamite (2025) review

On one not-so-fine day, an intercontinental ballistic missile comes screaming across the sky from an unknown location and is expected to strike the city of Chicago, so various members of the U.S. government - particularly Olivia Walker (Rebecca Ferguson) in the White House Situation Room, Deputy National Security Advisor Jake Baerington (Gabriel Basso), Secretary of Defense Reid Baker (Jared Harris), General Anthony Brady (Tracy Letts) and the POTUS (Idris Elba) - have to figure out how to respond.  While it's clear that a decent amount of research was done on the topic - hence all the jargon/acronyms that flow from everyone's mouths - most of it is just concerned faces and brow sweat and wringing hands instead of any properly generated tension.  Then, to draw it out even further, it tells the story from multiple perspectives - frequently replaying a video conversation - which only delays the inevitable (millions will perish, but political personnel hiding in a bunker will be spared).  If its purpose is to warn citizens that their safety isn't guaranteed and that our air defense system isn't completely efficient it does technically work on that level ... although with Emperor #47's corrupt administration, the real terror is coming from inside the country.