Marlene Meier

This was not a movie. This was episode 1 of a series at best. It was 1 paragraph of a 500 page book that was not written yet. The President and a local town's government has more staff for a summer barbecue planning team than this movie showed would represent the highest levels of the President's cabinet or the U.S.Military. There are literally less than 5 people of consequence in this movie and it's like it was written in 1945 where there is only 1 person who knows anything and this information is only in her brain and no one else in government would have this knowledge, any briefs, reports, a database, AI support or even a random Google search. Even the President didn't have an aid, a Chief of Staff, not even a secretary or a lousy intern. How cheap was the budget? They had no intelligence of where the missile came from, no team of experts but just one guy with the nuclear football codes who gives him a smorgasbord of infinite options? What is this 3rd grade capacity of understanding the intricacies of how these things work? How stupid and foolish is this movie? Obviously no one in the director' s staff ever ran a company or worked in any high level of government. I've seen 80s sitcoms that had more facts and deliberations. And what's with repeating this dynamite house analogy without actually giving any depth to the complexity other than a cheap marketing slogan. If I could give this movie negative stars I would. It's not a movie ...it's 3 sentences of a general idea repeated 3 times pretending to be a cohesive thought but forgot that a story has to be developed and written for an adult mind and not a simplistic 3 year old's bedtime story. IT WAS A BIG WASTE OF EVERYONE'S TIME AND MONEY.