Nonsensical Character Choices
This is so poorly written, the characters come off as complete idiots because the choices they make are not driven by the characters' motivations, but by the demands of the plot. Some examples...
* Bro and Sis go to the police looking for their father when their father left them a clear message to go to the building (characters must have a relationship with policeman Stone for plot reasons)
* In nuke world, Stone's men capture the group and bring them before Stone, who quickly turns them away as if they had come to him of their own accord for help? (just nonsensical)
* ...until Harold calls Stone by name thanking him (why?). It's only then that Stone wants to ask them more questions...? (payoff of earlier otherwise unnecessary interaction with Stone, in order to show that this was a "different" Stone)
* She immediately identifies her father as the bomber even after Tinker has made it clear he is dangerous and unreasonable (plot exposition). Why does it matter to Tinker who the man is when his plan is to blow up the building? (again, plot exposition)
* When the group escapes, Stone screams, "Where did they go?". Lemme guess, the building? (just stupid)
* Tinker's whole plan is to nuke the building, to which he has direct evidence that a nuke will not hurt this building. Even so, why does he wait? (providing a means for Tinker to end up in the building next time it trips)
* Tinker sets a timer on the nuke, even though he plans on dying and will be transporting the bomb to the building personally. A trigger would be a lot more sensible, with a lot less chance of something going wrong, like not getting to the building in time, not to mention, simpler (needed to build suspense in the plot)
* In tech world, a hand print is all that's needed to access your credit or to enter your home. But to use your laptop, you need a password. (plot needed to show that Harold has a thing for Sis by having her name in his password)
* When Bro opens up the newspaper wrapping in tech world, the note tells him to get out. How could the person leaving that note possibly know there were men arriving just then to capture Bro? This is not a time travel movie. (Conflict had to be set up to show characters are being pursued and that Dad is looking out for them)
* Tinker goes from his genius plan of blowing up the building because it's bad, to somehow full understanding of what's going on, even referring to the "people upstairs"... (plot exposition)
* Dad says "I've tried to keep you kids away from this"...but he was the one who told them to come to the building!!! (plot had to get the characters into the building somehow)
* Dad is impressed with Tinker's ability to make something to control the building, something Dad seemingly has interest in doing, so naturally the solution is to kill Tinker immediately no questions asked (need to set up the ongoing situation of the characters having a device they don't fully understand with limited control over the building)
* Dad tells Bro about the advanced piece of tech, and Bro asks neither what it does nor how to operate it. ...And...shouldn't there be two of these now? (needed to set up the situation of the characters possessing a mysterious deux-ex-machina)
This show kind of had a neat premise but the characters just all came across as painfully stupid, 100% driven by the plot in order to establish this scenario for an episode per week type show
* the characters mission is to find mom, who is somehow key to all of this
* the characters have a device that can control the building, but they don't fully understand it
* the characters have an advanced piece of tech that they have no understanding of at all
* there is a wildcard character (who was by far the most interesting part of this "movie"