movie review

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

Running time: 112 minutes. Rated R (language). On Netflix Oct. 24.

Two ominous notes of music repeat at the beginning of “A House of Dynamite,” sounding like the score from “Jaws.”

Only this time the killer shark is a nuke. And it’s only 19 minutes away from an unsuspecting United States.

The “you’re all going to die!” alarm from “Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty” director Kathryn Bigelow is the king of all downers.

Its deflating take is that America is woefully unprepared for a potential nuclear war at a precarious time in the world, and we’re sitting ducks less than a half-hour from imminent, unprovoked annihilation.

“Dynamite” is an overcooked casserole of lofty “ifs”.

What happens if essential equipment malfunctions? What if, at our most peril

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