San Esmail worked directly with Obama on the movie. Obama "terrified" Esmail when he said something like You have no idea how accurate this is as though he knows! If Obama is the AC, wanted to see what was in the movie to pass it along to others. The movie was ok, pretty good acting, maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10, but the subject matter is what I'm interested in.It came out on Friday the 8th on Netflix. Strong cast including Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Kevin Bacon.
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Don't read further if you plan on watching it.
*. The main subject of the movie is that there was a cyber attack that wiped out electronics everywhere. Extreme helplessness not being able to communicate with anyone, know what's going on, watch TV, connect to the Internet--illustrates how fragile and dependent the world is on EVERYTHING related.
* There was an odd scene where a drone was dropping red pamphlets to the ground in Arabic writing--one of the kids said it said "Death to America".
*. Planes, boats, and self-driving electric cars all crashed throughout the movie.
*. One of the biggest points of the movie is the money manager homeowner has a very rich client who got drunk with him one night and spilled the beans about an evil ruling elite cabal that knows what's coming and they were preparing for major change.
*. Twice in the movie an extremely high pitched sound went off that hurt those who could hear it--it cracked glass and was so powerful the young male child's teeth fell out.
* Animals were acting strange as if they knew what was coming.
Steve M