Boring and lackluster

Rating: 4/10 (7 January 2013)

Wow, the trailer made this film look so exciting and interesting. The final product however, is neither. The 2 hours leading up to the invasion of Bin Laden's fortress, are silly, and surprisingly un-engaging. Silly characters, having silly conversations about unrelated topics, most of them women for some reason. Jessica Chastain, who is grossly miscast here, is hunting Bin Laden with a passion, for no apparent reason however. She behaves as if she has been personally gang raped by AL Queada, the way she obssesses over his capture. The final scenes, which should have been intense and thrilling, came across as a bad "Rambo" film, one where we care little about the end result. The way that the US troops busted into that compound and just began shooting everyone in sight, was disgraceful, and does nothing to change the negative opinion that much of the World has of America. I doubt that this film would have gotten much attention at all, if director Kathryn Bigelow hadn't won her Oscar, and if the subject matter was not so volatile. I'm quite surprised that a subject so fascinating was turned into such a boring film. This is one to skip in the theater. Wait for the DVD release; "Zero Dark Thirty" is not really worth the price of admission. In fact, it is surprisingly bad..