Zero Day: Will Niro make you totally paranoid? (critical)
Thriller Politique Conspirationniste, Zero Day plunges America into chaos after a devastating cyber attack. A disturbed story, less intelligent than he would like, and carried by one from Niro on a wire.
Fake News, Deepfakes, Mass Manipulations … In a world where information has become a weapon and the truth an illusion, how to distinguish reality from lie? Zero day Drive into this anxiety -provoking breach with a breathtaking thriller. Everything starts from a cyber attack that strikes America, plunging the population into panic for 1 minute. Just a minute but thousands of deaths and no culprit designated: is it a blow from the Russians? Anarchists? Neo-fascists? Behind screens and speeches, and if the greatest danger was not the enemy, but fear itself?
Assumed conspiracy series, Zero day intelligently captures the air of time. Eric Newmanformer of Narcosquestions about the quest for truth in a world where conspiracy theories and lures abound. What is real? What is our imagination or our own paranoid? The concept is exciting to say the least, but the political thriller never arrives at the end of its ambitions, until sometimes lacking in its intentions.
The story widespread on itself, between false tracks and broadcast paranoia, without always offering a net guideline. Like the enigmatic performance of Robert de Nirowhich camps a former American president beyond the cleavages, a fantasized version of a leader capable of consensus, at a time when the politician has lost all credit (or almost). His character, both noble and ambiguous, embodies – around a particularly impressive cast – all the strength of the series, but also all its weaknesses.
Less intelligent than it looks like, Zero day would like to question the diktat of the image, the networks, a world of media and at the same time analyzing the divisions of a country fractured by the Trump era. “”Half of the country delirits on lies and plots, and the other excites pronouns and prioritizes its grievances“rebe one of the bad guys in a stupid and nasty finale when explained. Eric Newman And its authors obviously intended to denounce the excesses of good wills ready to justify the suppression of freedoms for the “common good”, but their words stops at a low plea of the front against the confiscation of power, proclaimed by A Robert de Niro almost martyr.
Seeking to say everything and its opposite, the series never can endure the own weight of its great political ambition. There remains a perfectly embodied conspiracy thriller, 3:30 in the meanders of a truly captivating investigation. And at the end of the day, you will want to slide a “Robert de Niro” bulletin in the urn in the next elections.
Zero Day, in 6 episodes, to see on Netflix from February 20, 2025.
