If you listen carefully during the end credits, you'll find the ending you're looking for.

buen film, lamentablemente el final poco amable con el espectador, y aqui no caben interpretaciones, el final no llena las expectativas de la sala.

kathryn the great

8 sugars?!!!!

ignore the trans incel comments below this one, this movie is not good. You wont enjoy it and you wont remember it. This film is terrible.

Just watched this and it's fantastic! Ignore the mouth breathing incel comments about it. It was great!

From my point of view, the film discusses the topic of decision-making and its psychological dimensions for the decision-makers—the confusion and lack of knowledge about the motives of the attack made decision-making difficult and delayed, especially since there are consequences and repercussions. The director left the ending open to all possibilities; we are the ones who will make the decision, and how that ending will be.

What a strange story. First, if this is supposedly a strike on a country, why is it a single strike, and not, say, 10 or 100 missiles? Or why are there so few interceptor missiles in the missile defense system, given that the offensive weapons arsenal clearly has many more? Or is it a "retaliatory strike" against an enemy whose identity is unknown?

Great 1st half, then slows down and finally stops dead at the end. Bored me watching the same set of events over and over, except from different perspectives. Then came the absolute dud at the end. 5/10

Thanks for 4K

I can't even spoil the ending for you because there isn't one. The writer just got bored and wrote "The End." Like Titanic "Is that an iceberg?"... The End..

this was great! Thank you! And it pissed off the Pentagon! Double win!

The pure horror of it all. I immediately follow-up this with the 1984 TV flick 'Threads'(having only watched both for the very first time). However improbable it may seem it's still very possible that some psycho at the other end coulda push the red button.

I had a similar reaction to the end at first(jarring), but the more I thought about it, I can't think of a single other ending that anyone would have actually been satisfied with, least of all me. The implications and "fallout" for either scenario(Chicago is destroyed or it isn't) would, in itself, require a telling longer than the original movie. There are no planned sequels/tv series. This was a one-off and the ending was deliberate. We are allowed to use our imaginations to make up our own ending, which was the point, and I'm actually fine with that. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself caught up in the whole thing more than I thought I would, and it reminded me somewhat of Wargames. If you really needed an ending, just imagine nuclear winter and chill out.

Interesting concept... and then came the end... Me: spontaneous combustion

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@DJRthe Fixer, agree with your review, but Fail Safe had a BIG NAME actor, namely Henry Fonda, and in a smaller role Walter Matthau.

It had a stellar cast and a hefty budget, but it didn’t land with the impact I’ve seen elsewhere. If you're looking for a leaner, more haunting take—without the gloss of big-name actors or blockbuster production—seek out Fail Safe (1964). It’s stripped-down, taut, and far more terrifying. Proof that dread doesn’t need dollars, just precision and moral weight.

The film references a chilling moment when high-altitude clouds were mistaken for incoming missiles—echoing the night Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov quietly saved the world. Just three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, tensions were razor-sharp. Petrov, the duty officer at the Oko nuclear early-warning system, was confronted with a terrifying alert: a missile launch from the United States, followed by reports of up to four more. Protocol demanded retaliation. Colleagues urged action. But Petrov held the line. Trusting his instincts over the system’s data, he judged the alarm to be false. He was right. The Soviet satellite warning system had malfunctioned. His refusal to escalate—defying procedure and pressure—averted a potential nuclear catastrophe.

Awesome film, will keep you engaged till the End. Then the end is a WTF