A Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (7 January 2013)

I cannot possibly write a spoiler as if everyone does not know the outcome of this film then they have been hiding under a rock. Still I will make my comments general. Probably I should have given this docudrama a 10. I did not because the film has been criticized by some especially on the left who are much more knowledgeable than I am about the details of the operation.
In view of that I will give my high review a caveat. That caveat is that I wonder if the details of the film are absolutely accurate. Did the US use torture which includes water-boarding and SO much more? If so did that use of torture lead to revealing the details about bin Laden's courier leading directly to him. These two questions are pivotal.
STILL no matter what the veracity is concerning my two questions, the technological expertise of this film is a thing to behold. I am amazed on two levels. The first is that the film maker took such pains I believe to get the details correct AND I am awestruck by the nerves of steel of those who were involved in the planning of it and the US military who had nerves of steel conducting it. Ultimately, though, it needed the all systems go from the president. He gave it although the film showed nothing of the president but one knows in the final analysis of the mission if it failed he would have been blamed entirely! I suspect the filmmakers did not want to make this a political pro Obama statement. I thank the US military, the president's advisers and the president himself for their incredible pursuit and acquisition of intel to capture the world's most wanted man!