Review of Atomica (2017)
Seen in 2021.
A recently promoted engineer sets off alone to repair the first fission plant, which was built on the site of a 2018 nuclear disaster and has ceased to communicate.
As expected on that budget, it’s very much a chamber play with some fun shots from a set-dressed Titan missile silo. Unfortunately, the writers do nothing but tie all the characters in knots pretending to build an engaging mystery. The worldbuilding is bad, freely confusing fusion and fission for power generation with one another and with nuclear weapons in a very-near-future utopia-dystopia. Surprisingly, the plot ultimately fails to connect meaningfully to that worldbuilding. The drama as it stands could have been about anything, and is therefore about nothing.