Review 761: A House of Dynamite

                                         

Kathryn Bigelow has done it again! 

Broken up into 3 vignettes telling the story from different perspectives, this film unfolds like a 3 act play. The screenplay by Noah Oppenheim feels tight and concise 

the score by Volker Bertelmann is 

It's worth noting how smartly and well Bigwlow has cast A House of Dynamite. Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, Gabriel Basso (fresh off of Clint Eastwood's Juror #2), Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, Jason Clarke, Brian Tee, Brittany O'Grady from HBO's The White Lotus, Willa Fitzgerald, Renee Elise Goldsberry (who many will recognise from theatre and TV, particularly Marvel's She-Hulk & Kaitlyn "Abby" Dever. Impressive.

At the centre of the ensemble and indeed, the whole film, we have Rebecca Ferguson as Cap. Olivia Walker whom we follow for the first act of the film. Olivia is the senior 

You really can't go wrong with Idris Elba as the President of the U.S. and he dug his nails into the How can a film starring a Black President in a post-Obama world be seen as anything other than a jab at the current one.