Zero Days – 6.5

The story is better than the storytelling. How many people do we need to hear saying, “I can’t comment,” in order to grasp that a virus to destabilize Iran’s nuclear program is a state secret, an obvious fact to begin with. Then there is the problem of how to film computer code, which supplies the main visual for the movie’s first half. With so much shrouded in mystery, telling the story out of chronological order doesn’t help either. What saves the film is its final quarter, in which far-reaching questions about cyberwarfare and secrecy are raised: questions that perhaps have no answer.