One single piece of characterisation wouldn't have gone amiss in 157 minutes

Rating: 5/10 (25 August 2014)

(42%) A movie so wrapped up in political bullshit that the US ministry of propaganda more or less wrote the entire script. How do we really know what's actually going on out there? Because the fact is we don't know the half of it, and almost everything featured here is based entirely on ifs, buts, and maybes drip-fed from what the media spurts out making this more of an opinion based affair than modern-day historical truth. Annoying underhanded story aside that links together terrible human evens for the sake the movie's plot with one sole perpetrator Dr evil Laden acting like the mother ship in a sci-fi alien attack flick, what exactly has this got going for it? Well the main character is a single- minded one-note government agent on the hunt for Bin Larden, and that's all she is, same as every other character featured. They're all what they do for a living and nothing more, there's practically no depth to any of them. And by the time Laden's ugly looking hideout is raided, and his super hi-tec 1990's computers and video cassettes are gathered together, I'd more or less had my fill of US style manufactured history. But at least they were honest about the helicopter that the super trained team managed to crash into thin air before killing the unarmed suspect, that's at least something. Bigelow needs to step away from politics and make something fun and enjoyable to watch, because this is whitewashing by numbers and that's a very boring game to play.