Queue Tip: House it going.

Apparently, "A House of Dynamite" is not a spinoff of "House of Cards".  Or "House of the Dragon".  Or "House".  It's actually a movie about a nuclear missile attack on the United States.  Only nobody knows who is attacking and why.

So there's all these military people and politicians involved, and it's all tense and everything.  Maybe I wasn't really paying too much attention, but I didn't notice there were much scientists or mathematicians or scholars being consulted for their expertise.  Like, for one thing, they seem to know the trajectory of this missile and where it would land.  Now I'm not a rocket surgeon, but couldn't they then track where that missile came from?  Wouldn't that give them a clue?

I would hope that if this were to - God forbid - happen in real life, firstly, there would already be intelligence and warnings about it.  Secondly, there would be competent people handling it and quickly investigating.  Again, I guess I wasn't really paying much attention but it seems like all these characters are just shrugging their shoulders like iono.  

It's supposed to be all tense and everything.  And I guess that's why the director decided to use the shaky handheld camera as a style choice.  It's moving around a lot, panning from one side to the other and sometimes it goes out of focus.  And there's a lot of cuts.  Death by a thousand cuts.  I just found it annoying.  It can be good for some films, like in the Bourne series of movies, I thought it worked well.  I didn't check the credits but I wonder if this is the same director.

Anyways, apparently they decided to intercept this missile, I think by shooting another missile at it.  And apparently it missed.  And that was the whole plan.  There was no Plan B.  Like, really?  Not even an inkling of what you might do next?  A shot in the dark?  A wild guess?  Now, it wouldn't be me, but wouldn't somebody out there have been willing to jump in a jet and fly into this thing and save the country and potentially the world?

One thing I did notice right away though is the Prudential Center in Newark. specifically, the Citizens Tower entrance.  That was pretty cool.  That is where the New Jersey Devils play, and I recognized it right away.  We go there quite a few times a year for hockey practice and games for my kids, and of course, to watch NHL games.  So that was pretty cool.

I think ultimately though, I couldn't really get into this movie, to be honest.  I could not suspend my disbelief.  It was hard for me to forget that these fictional characters were not actually in charge of the country and that the real people are actually out there in government.

And lastly, do we really need end credits to be over ten minutes long?