Legendary actor Robert De Niro stars in Netflix's "Zero Day," a political thriller with a packed cast that includes fellow Academy Award Winner, Angela Bassett.

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.

The six-part series aims to be a gripping political thriller but instead ends up as a sluggish, unfocused drama that fails to justify its star-studded cast.