Really Enjoyed This Film

Rating: 8/10 (22 January 2013)

Contains spoilers but lets be honest we all know the bad guy gets it at the end.
Whilst we all know the basic story of how the US special forces went in and shot Bin Laden this film depicts an excellent dramatisation of the story leading up to the event.
People have complained at not being shown the back story to the characters but I was happy with this as the film was all about the search for and ultimate death of Bin Laden, we didn't need to know if Maya had a happy childhood or if Dan was actually a normal person and not a psychopathic torturer. We were just shown the relentless mission of Maya to get her man. By the way Jason Clarke who played Dan does a fantastic job showing that for him torture of his prisoners was just a job.
I was surprised in such an American centred film to see the 7/7 bombings in London featured, I don't actually think this added anything to the story as there are other events such as the Madrid bombings which could have also been shown if more international terror events were to be used.
The actual raid towards the end of the film whilst very well depicted was for me the weakest part of the film as this is the part the viewer knows happened and I didn't think that as much time needed to be used to show this.
I feel that the way the film ended was very well portrayed with the sensation that a job had been completed and completed with success.