Julia Roberts takes her family to a holiday rental on Long Island, where their phones and TV stop working and things get progressively weirder, even before the owner of the property turns up out of the blue with his daughter and stories of blackouts in New York, asking to stay in the basement while the situation settles down. But nothing does settle down and it becomes apparent that the whole country is under cyberattack and descending into a state of utter chaos, the culprits quite unknown.
This was produced by the Obamas, and the connection gradually manifests itself: the unseen enemy isn't so much a tangible external power, but the easy spread of misinformation and paranoia in current America. And the seed for the growth of the societal disintegration that takes place has implicit parallels with the MAGA movement, underlined by their survivalist neighbour, who they turn to for help, laying out all the standard conspiracy theories propagated by the movement.
Structurally it is somewhat of a jumble and the message itself is not a subtle one, but the way it's snuck in under the radar, facilitated by able actors and being difficult to pin down in simple terms of genre, makes it both effective and worthwhile.
6/10
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