A House Full of Dynamite

What if Dr. Strangelove was a drama and everyone in the movie was competent? That’s A House Full of Dynamite. (see also: Fail Safe) This new Netflix offering poses the stark hypothetical scenario, “What if there was a nuke headed for the US” and everyone in the military and government was, more or less, competent? Would you, gentle US citizen, feel confident that your leaders would make the right decision? The follow-up question from Katheryn Bigelow and the filmmakers seems to be: now ask yourself, how would the dysfunctional, incompetent psychopaths in the REAL current administration handle the same scenario? Although the details are gipping and the filmmaking is expert, it’s all secondary to the existential truth this passionately expresses: do you trust who you voted for with the nuclear codes?