mediocre I am afraid and controversial

Rating: 5/10 (26 January 2013)

I saw the movie mostly for Jessica Chastain. Plus the story was supposed to be interesting.
But at the end I got really disappointed. Nothing impressed me in this movie. Kathryn Bigelow was in much better form in "Hurt Locker". The writing was bad so she didn't get any help from it either. I also found the editing poor. There was no rhythm in the whole movie, no power, no tension, no strong scenes, no character's development (basically no characters at all), nothing that made me care. Not even during the raid scene.
I think Chastain did whatever she good with a VERY mediocre material and a rather uninspired direction. As much as I like J.Chastain, I don't think this is her best performance,but as I said, not her fault. I just have this feeling that if she gets the Oscar this year it would be more for her overall presence in movies than in this actual role.
As for the torture controversy. Does this movie goes pro torture? in my opinion it does. The scenes weren't shocking or powerful so I don't think she wanted to condemn torture. She made them shown like just a daily routine of some good CIA agents that one moment they torture a guy and the next moment they wanna go for a coffee. Plus how many times we heard on the film that "we cant get more info because we cannot torture anyone anymore"? which according to CIA it is a lie, since none of the info leading to find OBL was obtained by interrogation.
So I dunno if Bigelow did it on purpose but yes it is a pro-torture movie that presents one big anti-terrorism success as a result of torturing terrorists.
In conclusion, it had potentials that never reached. 5 only for Chastain and Jason Clark.