
Okay, so the ending of A House of Dynamite is… something else. Basically, the movie keeps revisiting this same 20-minute crisis from different angles within the government, and just when you’re waiting to see what the President – Idris Elba, by the way – is going to do about this rogue nuclear missile headed for Chicago, it cuts away! We don’t see the missile hit, we don’t see the US respond, and honestly, we have no idea if this thing escalates into a full-blown nuclear war or if things somehow calm down. Instead, the movie ends with a bunch of ‘designated survivors’ – people who are supposed to rebuild society – heading into a bunker in Pennsylvania, just waiting to see what happens. It’s a really unsettling and open-ended finish, let me tell you.