Touted as the UK’s The Day After, Threads is indeed more unflinching and starker than its American counterpart, but story wise, it suffers from adequate acting. The story is unclear after the nuclear bomb hits. The characters’ stories are subordinate to illustrating broader effects of a nuclear bomb on society. The pacing is not strong-too slow in some parts and then the end feels rushed as the filmmakers try to show what a generation born during the nuclear holocaust would look and act like. In the end, the filmmakers’ imagination fails them, and they rush to end the film hoping that the viewers’ imagination will be able to succeed where they have failed. I would not mind a remake with stronger characters and story, but committed to the same dour, pessimistic sensibility.