Zero Dark Thirty is not that Dark After all

Rating: 5/10 (12 January 2013)

I purchased my ticket to see "Zero Dark Thirty" for a 12:00 PM showing 2 weeks prior to the Nationwide Opening date. Going in from all the early reviews and notices I expected to be both disturbed and sickened by the supposed scenes of Advanced Interrogation Techniques AKA Torture. Thirty minutes into the film there were a few scenes of water boarding of about 60 seconds each. The sexual humiliation consisted of one detainees pants being pulled down and exposed to the films female lead Maya. Guys on the NYC subway expose themselves more. The same detainee was placed into a wooden box on a table that he was forced to crunch into. Once he is placed into it that box we never return to see if he was in this box for 10 minutes, 10 hours or 10 days? The other thing that really bothered me was that 99% of these detainees all spoke perfect English. I have seen professional female dominatrix in S & M clubs treat there male and female submissive more harshly. In the USA Network series La femme Nikita head strategist Madeline who also handled interrogations for the shows fictional anti terrorist group Section One would have gotten the information in under 4 hours. I did like the attitude of Maya in going up against the male dominated CIA boys club at one point in a conference room with a model of the bin-Laden camp on the table Maya spoke up saying she was sure bin-Laden was there a male member asked "Who are You" she replied I'm the mother-bleeper than found this place" The raid itself was annoying to watch as we had to see it through the night vision goggles worn by Seal Team 6. And it seemed to go on and on with no ending in site. Is this a good film ? Yea I guess I would say it was good but it's not Oscar worthy either for film or direction or acting. My biggest complaint was it did not fade out with President Obama standing at the podium in the White House on May-1 -2011making the announcement to the world that the United States had conducted a mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin-Laden.