A House of Dynamite 2025 Movie Review
I just finished watching this colossal disaster of a movie-let’s call it “The Protocol”-and despite the hype around it, I am left not entertained, but genuinely terrified. Not by the fictional nuclear threat it tries to depict, but by the sheer, staggering incompetence of the systems and personnel it showcases.
If this film is meant to be even a vague reflection of how a possible nuclear attack on America would actually unfold, then I am very deeply worried. The entire premise is built on the baffling assumption that our detection and intervention systems are still in the dinosaur age. There is simply no way, in the year we live in, that the world’s most advanced security apparatus would be this porous, this slow, and this laughably antiquated. It’s unbelievable, and it ruins any chance of taking the story seriously.
But the systems are only half the problem. The highly trained personnel-the men and women supposedly trained for years to deal with this exact kind of existential event-behave like total, absolutely ridiculous amateurs. Their actions lack any professional logic, their communication is chaotic, and the whole unfolding of the event makes no sense. The film tries to be a gripping, real-time depiction of a crisis, but it ends up feeling like a farce. It’s a nice try, perhaps, but ultimately an unbelievable pile of nonsense.
This is the point that truly stresses me: the terrifying realization that if the movie is any reflection of how reality would look, the world, and especially America, is in a deeper pit hole than one can imagine. The film doesn’t just fail as a thriller; it serves as a terrifying indictment of professional competence. I sincerely hope that the actual men and women responsible for global security are nothing like the inept, disorganized characters on screen, because watching this cinematic train wreck has only fostered deep anxiety about our actual state of readiness.
It’s an insult to intelligence, and the only suspense it generated in me was the dread that real life might mirror this on-screen failure.
