Kathryn Bigelow has done it again!!!

Rating: Null/10 (15 January 2013)

She made a sub-standard movie and gained recognition that the movie did not deserve. How she manages to pull that off two movies in a row, I have no clue. No character development and plausible storytelling. Your main character who is supposed to be a 'killer from Washington' does nothing but standing around. She is a diligent, hard-working agent, but that is just like the next guy in the movie. Her female co-worker doesn't like her in one scene, and they are the best friend the next scene. Her male co-worker doesn't respect her one scene and become her faithful friend who will pull strings and travel to Saudi just to get her some phone number. I am not saying that can't happen over few years of working together, but the plausible storytelling would tell us how such a tight relationship came about.
Junior analyst like her meeting a senior officials and giving one-liner with profanity or writing how many days they are doing nothing on the windows may work nice to decorate your heroine as a bad-A right before she raids the villain's house and kill 200 men with her bare hands in 90s action flick. But if you wanna pass as an artistically well-made movie inspired by true events that shaped our way of life, you should take this movie making seriously and try to portray our men and women in clandestine service and their working environment in a bit more accurate manner. Just as people served in a military were disappointed in the implausibility of movie "The Hurt Locker", this movie passes as an average drama mixed with a bit of an action and a boredom. It probably doesn't deserve 1 star, but it was placed to offset higher stars it doesn't deserve.