Nothing to see here, please move along

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2012)

I found this movie painfully boring. I specifically wanted to see the raid scene, so I made sure I was awake for those thirty minutes, but that was still boring. I understand that the raid happened at night (hence the name of the movie), however, a director isn't supposed to have shots that are almost pitch black. So the final thirty minutes is a combination of night-vision shots, and no-vision shots. The two hours before that is interrogation, or looking at films. And some random conversations between characters that have a forced interaction with each other.
Chastain is a horrible actor. Bigelow is a worse director. Neither of them should be nominated for anything, but they will because they are women, and because of the subject matter. I do not feel that all of the events in the movie are properly tied together, and it simply drags along in places. The best actor in the movie was Jason Clark. Everyone else was fairly wooden. Chris Pratt is hard to shake from his Parks & Rec role, so I am not sure that I buy him as a DEVGRU team leader. At all. However, it doesn't really matter as the SEALs have a fairly minor role in the movie. You see them get the op, and you see some first-person shots from them in night-vision during the assault. Which, as I said, is painfully anti-climactic.
Now, some of the reviews here are all caught up in the use of torture or "coercive interrogation". I, for one, have no problem with it whatsoever. I remember the way that I felt on September 11, 2001, and if an individual had anything to do with that in any way, shape, or form, then water boarding would be the least of his worries from me. So, I don't find that this takes away from the movie. My problems with it lie elsewhere.
I was not entertained by this movie, and I never plan on seeing it again. I sat for 2 hours, waiting to see the part of the movie that sounded the most interesting, and that was like watching paint dry. Bigelow missed harder here than she did with Hurt Locker (which, I thought was misguided garbage through and through. ... War is a drug? Oh please. Validate that statement please. ... That's what I thought.) and there is nothing redeeming about this film. It is a waste of time, and sure to cause your legs and/or lower back to cramp.