The six-episode conspiracy thriller starring Robert De Niro is too convoluted to generate real intrigue. De Niro plays a former president, named George Mullen, who is called back into action by the current president (Angela Bassett) after a nationwide cyber attack.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Zero Day. "Those are the facts, but not the truth." As former U.S. president turned special commission investigator George Mullen (Robert De Niro) delivers a climactic closing speech in the final scene of Netflix's new political thriller Zero Day,

De Niro stars as former President George Mullen, to whom Bassett’s President Evelyn Mitchell gives unprecedented — and arguably unconstitutional — power to arrest without warrants as the head of a special task force formed after a nationwide cyberattack kills thousands.