Totally agree with you. The dinner scene was such a huge letdown for me. That part in the book was so tense and full of little clues, and the movie just blew right past it. I felt like they traded all that great political stuff for more action scenes.

Is the dirt taste maybe part of the charm? I just use boiling water straight from the kettle, always turns out fine.

That sounds like a real headache.

Heard ammonia can work sometimes for that old steel and aluminum mess.

Yeah, that big reveal moment is brutal. Robert_roberts might be onto something with the algorithm theory.