Ambivalent

Rating: 7/10 (12 August 2013)

6.5/10 In sum: first 3/4 boring, final quarter is interesting; not worth it, but has good production effects
I thought the Hurt Locker was boring, so I figured this might be along the same lines. It took me 3 weeks of the BluRay sitting by the player to actually force myself to sit down and watch it. So possibly I went into it and it became a self fulfilling prophecy with it being boring.
TBH I feel like the movie did a disservice to the story and it made it all so painfully boring. If you're going to watch this movie, skip to the 2 hr in mark. That's when everything is finally interesting.
I get the slowness of the movie in illustrating Actress Jessica Chastain's character's difficulty in sleuthing and convincing. But the Hurt Locker is so similar in direction and feel, that I feel this is more Director Kathryn Bigelow's fault than anything else.
Yet another Oscar hyped movie that isn't worthwhile