Great observations on this movie.
The problems I have with the plot... nowadays is that the Air Force zoomies controlling the log book at a base and the comings and goings in the time line-— way too simplified and... on paper.
This kind of surreptitious crapola has been going on ever since before 9-11-2001. IFF transponders and ID software switch on and off... flights “disappear” as needed for opsec, deception or to evade US policy and law- as the obamaumao,JoeBamaumaos and the Hare-a@@ apparatchiks did regularly to surveill illegally.
President Trump spied on, FISA courts fraud to do so, and now, the rest of the US (but never BLM or AntiFA- so who are they working for now, and sharing the surveill with. For we are under attack, for real by Chi-Coms. Assymmetric warfare, biowarfare and propaganda)
I enjoyed seeing Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, and especially Cuba Gooding as young actors before their careers took off.
The movie is a hit piece no doubt. Kept waiting for sex scenes but it didn’t happen. The message of the flick was too important for distractions.