24 was better than this......

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2013)

I never really understood why The Hurt Locker was so praised upon it's release and whilst I really like Katheryn Bigelow as a director this latest film of her's left me dead eyed and completely unsatisfied. It's got that Homeland vibe about it, but doesn't scream entertainment in a way that draws the viewer in.....it feels at times like it's a set of storyboards that have just been clumped together to make a movie and you feel need to actually work in an intelligence department just to understand what is going on. This might be an accurate portrayal of what happened, but it's not entertainment. I would have preferred it as a documentary rather than a docudrama. It's crass to say it, but I couldn't help but feel if Jack Bauer had been there he'd have got Osama in the first 24 hours.......