A very good movie about a major moment in the war on terror

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2017)

Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" is a very gripping and suspenseful account of the raid authorized by former President Barack Obama to take out Osama bin Laden the man who was responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and after that event happened he was under the radar for almost 10 years until May 1, 2011 until he was shot and killed by members of SEAL team 6. The movie stars Jessica Chastain in an Oscar nominated performance as Maya a CIA agent who in the movie came up with the original plan to take out Bin Laden. The movie isn't as suspenseful as her previous movie which was 2009's "The Hurt Locker" which was a total flawless masterpiece and one of the best war movies ever made. Then Maya tells her colleagues at the CIA as well as then director Leon Panetta (James Gandolfini) her plan to take him out while most of them agreed with it. Bigelow and her screenwriter Mark Boal are probably the greatest modern director-screenwriter duo currently working which Boal wrote the Oscar winning screenplay for "The Hurt Locker". Even though this film wasn't as good as "The Hurt Locker" the scenes where the mission to take out Bin Laden were so intense that I didn't know what was going to happen next. My cousin's best friend told me that the movie was bad because it was inaccurate before I even saw the movie even though I was still looking forward to watching it and the movie totally worked for me, and now that I think about it the movie could be ranked among the best military movies ever made even though it isn't really a war movie. Because of experiences like this one and "The Hurt Locker" I am totally looking forward to seeing what movie that Bigelow and Boal do next, because this is one of the best movies of 2012.