Left me somewhat disappointed with its unrealism

Rating: 5/10 (1 February 2013)

There has been a number of comments on what is bad about this movie, and I will focus on one particular aspect that I found to be somewhat unbelievable. First though I must mention that while it was what I expected from the creator of The Hurt Locker, it is nowhere near as good, nor is it anywhere near as objective as the former movie. Certainly this film is not a film that runs around trumpeting the virtues of the United States, and while it does not necessarily condemn torture, it suggests that torture is not the best way of obtaining information. However, the film is not about torture, it is about the hunt for Bin Laden.
Personally, if I were to make a propaganda piece I would be more inclined to make a movie like this one than something like, say, the Delta Force, where we have an invincible group of marines storm a hide out of terrorists, and then return heroes. Okay, we do have out bunch of marines storming the hideout, however we do know that that was how it played out, and we do not have the hero's welcome at the end.
My concerns with how this film played out was simply the way it was suggested that when the marines (if they were marines) stormed the mansion in Pakistan, that nobody in the mansion, particularly Bin Laden (if that even was Bin Laden) knew what was going on. Granted, the helicopters were supposed to be quiet, but when they were flying around the house, no doubt they could still be heard (particularly when one of them crashed). Then, when they went into the house, blowing open doors, and having kids and women screaming, why were they not alerted.
The reason I raise this is because they stumble across an intelligence goldmine in the house which is a suggestion that pretty much everything that can be known about Al Qaeda would be in there. However, I wonder why nobody actually tried to destroy this information. It was not as if Al Qaeda couldn't continue afterwards. I suspect that the suggestion that we have that information now, the world has been saved from the Al Qaeda threat.
My position is that it hasn't. Even if that was Bin Laden in the house, that information is not necessarily going to reveal the exact extent of Al Qaeda's organisation. It is a cell based structure where if one cell, especially the head cell, is taken down, the organisation can continue. It is unlikely that every member in every country, is going to be printed in those files or on those hard drives. Also, Al Qaeda is only one organisation, and is generally considered an umbrella organisation that is used to describe a multitude of Islamic terrorist organisations, that may have no actually connection with Bin Laden. It is similar in the sense that the Taliban pretty much refers to any person who is resisting the Western occupation of Afghanistan.