Kathryn Bigelow's 'A House of Dynamite' Is Uncharacteristically Dull

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Watching people realize that they are caught slap bang in the middle of a rapidly unfolding disaster can be an incredibly compelling format for a story. It’s certainly one of my personal favorite templates. The story doesn’t even have to be set in a particularly exciting or exotic location for this to be the case. JC Chandor’s sublime 2011 account of the first rumblings of the coming tsunami that was the 2008 financial crash, Margin Call , remains one of my prime examples of this: taking place almost entirely in the anonymous crystal panopticons of a large investment bank—offices glittering, suspended hundreds of feet in the air, lording over the mortal realm below but otherwise banal a

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