"I'm the Motherf*cker Who Found This Place"

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2013)

Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty may not be as highly accurate as it is advertised but it does contain all the potent & explosive elements that made The Hurt Locker, the Best Picture Oscar winner of its year. Right from the beginning until the very end, the film generates an unrelenting atmosphere of severe tension & throughout its runtime remains highly gripping, suspenseful, very well detailed & is a superbly crafted film.
This is Kathryn Bigelow's most mature effort, much ahead of The Hurt Locker & her direction is very impressive. The writing is taut, very well-researched, finely detailed & nicely layered. The acting is brilliant as well with Jessica Chastain stealing the show with her intense knockout performance & the crew has tried to re-enact most of the events with as much authenticity as possible. Photographed in a documentary style, the film is finely edited & features a potent score too.
Yet in spite of what's great about it, the film isn't devoid of flaws & there were two things that really disappointed me. First is the absence of 9/11 footage when it gloriously displayed all the other terrorists bombings in full scale and the final climactic scene which, in my opinion, should've been entirely filmed in the night vision camera technique instead of jumping out from that into absolute darkness.
On an overall scale, Zero Dark Thirty may not be suitable for all viewers due to its explicit display of torture & grim atmosphere but there is also no denying that it's one of its year's best films which promises & delivers a nail-biting experience to its viewers.