We see people of all levels of that war machine, from those in the radar stations to bomber pilots, White House and Pentagon staff and eventually the POTUS react and deliberate over a response.
CW: suicide
Netflix have thrown Kathryn Bigelow at a reliable cast and a pile of money in service of an almost naïve exercise in multi viewpoint filmmaking.
It's initially tense as hell but when the same sequence of events comes up for the third time and again says absolutely nothing new it's just frustrating.
The premise that the missile cannot be said to have come from any specific nation is obviously contrived and many people will dislike the lack of resolution but that wouldn't matter if its main shtick worked and it just doesn't.
You would hope that the alternative viewpoints would be used to show some nuance and insight into the people involved but no it's just the same thing with the very small gaps filled in with stuff that you could easily have guessed at and I had already mentally filled in the blanks for: only this time it's just shown to you.
I was expecting so much more from one of my favourite directors but no, 4/10.