Spoilers.
I sincerely hope that we’re not as abjectly unprepared for some apocalyptic geopolitical event as depicted in the movie, strategically or temperamentally. People just yell at each other, crumble at the smallest setback, and don’t project the kind of professionalism and nerves of steel we assume they’d have in their position, particularly, and dismayingly, those in leadership.
It’s totally, totally different in real life.
The most shocking part of the movie was when an analyst mentions that China was experimenting with AI to manage their defense. I know nothing but hope we continue to stick to Boring Software™ (and floppy disks) in this department.
It’s trying to say something profound or drop a very challenging ‘exercise left up to reader/viewer’ but fails spectacularly with how scattered it is and how much it’s up its own ‘somber’ and ‘meditative’ arse. Tension, TENSION, tension, tension leading up to… nothing at all! And my complaint isn’t the lack of resolution. Like the tension, the monotonous and super-ominous background score befits the script by getting pretty annoying after the first 150 loops.
At least got to see Jared Harris being excellent as usual. “INCLINATION HAS FLATTENED” is a weird sentence.