Not a Bad Movie

Rating: 7/10 (20 March 2013)

I wanted to like Zero Dark Thirty better than I did. It is a good film, but it takes a long time to get started. You never really feel like you know any of the characters. Jessica Chastain who plays Maya, the CIA agent who pursues Bin Laden down the years never reveals who Maya is, what drives her, why she is so obsessed with this pursuit.
The movie didn't come alive for me until the final half hour, when the actual raid on Bin Laden's compound takes place. That is very exciting and very well crafted.
The torture scenes at the beginning of the movie are tame compared to others I have seen. Why there was so much controversy over torture which never reveals anything valuable is a mystery.