I found it to be a gripping and entertaining movie.

Rating: 9/10 (8 September 2018)

I see people fall into one of two camps when watching this film.
Having been at the Pentagon on 9/11 and the days and weeks that followed. Having seen what was left of fellow human beings as their remains were carried out in chunks and pieces.
I fell into the first camp - I am glad there are brave men and women doing the hard and messy jobs to keep us safe, and eliminate those who have no problem committing the most evil atrocities imaginable against their fellow humans.
I felt sorry not for the terrorists being water boarded, but for the innocent people murdered on 9/11 and in the various bombings committed. People who in one moment were a waiter, working to provide for their families, a human being with hopes and dreams, and the next instant were dead or gravely wounded by a terrorists bomb.
Then there is the second camp - who shrug their shoulders in apathy at all of that, but gnash their teeth at water boarding, or the US military.
The rattle their keyboards in virtue signaling as if they are more moral than the rest of us for not caring about terrorist victims, but only caring about the poor terrorists that are captured.
If Ms. Bigelow truly wanted this to be a propaganda piece she would have come down a lot harder on the bombing scenes. Letting the camera linger on the carnage, allowing us to see the dying as real people and not just extras in her film.
I thought she did a good job all in all, and found it to be a good, but slightly flawed film. I am impressed she didn't cave to the SJW culture that in Hollywood demands forever allegiance, and perhaps that is why her career has faded since this film.