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Robert De Niro Netflix Thriller ‘Zero Day’ Utterly Fails an Overqualified Cast: TV Review
Robert De Niro leads an overqualified cast in the incoherent Netflix thriller 'Zero Day', in which an ex-president investigates a cyber attack.
Directed by TV veteran Lesli Linka Glatter (“Love & Death”) and created by Eric Newman (“Narcos”) with journalists Noah Oppenheim and Michael S. Schmidt, “Zero Day” has some notable figures behind the camera. Joining this formidable roster are Connie Britton as Mullen’s chief of staff, with whom he shares an extramarital history; Lizzie Caplan as his daughter; Dan Stevens as a Ben Shapiro-Joe Rogan type; Gaby Hoffmann as a gender-flipped Elon Musk; and perennial “that guy” Bill Camp as director of the CIA. Watching an octogenarian president heavily implied to be a Democrat struggle to form sentences strikes a nerve, but for the most part, De Niro’s take is too taciturn and quietly dignified to inspire much emotion.
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