Netflix’s new smash hit film and Oscar hopeful A House of Dynamite has left countless viewers fuming.
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim controversially chose to end their film, which has just been released on Netflix after an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run last Friday, on an insane cliffhanger.
For nearly two hours, the thriller movie keeps audiences on the edge of their seats, waiting to see whether a nuclear bomb obliterates the city of Chicago.
The films clever narrative choices recount the same 18 minute countdown from three different point-of-view, and by the film’s end, fans have watched the minutes-to-impact clock reach zero three times.
But sadly we never know, and the ending is instead left entirely up in the air; and this has enraged some viewers.
“The film has no ending. At all. It doesn’t follow a traditional 3 act structure whatsoever and I think that is the main problem. I enjoyed the film the entire time I was watching but after investing nearly 2 hours, I found the ending extremely unsatisfying,” complained one viewer.
“I’m genuinely angry. I just wasted 2 hours. Like if they had ended the film after the first portion with them holding hands and a countdown, that would have been better than the horrible ending we were given. It’s so annoying because it’s a good movie with one of the worst endings I’ve ever seen,” moaned a second viewer.
While a third ranted: “The first third was phenomenal. Then you watched two worse versions. And then there’s no ending. I was so mad I wasted two hours.”
However, some eagle-eyed viewers have discovered that there many in fact be an answer as to what happened when the film ended and the clue comes in the credits.
As the credits are about to finish rolling, when subtitles are turned on a sound just as the credits end is listed as “[explosion]”.
“After a couple minutes there is an “(explosion)”. My wife makes me watch everything with subtitles and it was there,” insisted one fan.
“I always have subtitles on, and saw the explosion. It was shown a couple times,” said another.
A third added: “I saw it in my subtitles as well. What with them racing to Raven Rock (which would have been after Chicago was hit) and the sounds during the credits, I actually thought the movie DID have an ending!”
A House of Dynamite is streaming on Netflix now.
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