Yet another boring Bigelow movie

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2013)

After the success of her little Iraq war drama, the overrated and sleep-inducing Oscar winner 'The Hurt Locker', auteur Kathryn Bigelow hit the jackpot. Tired of her old silly movies like 'Point Break' or 'Blue Steel', she decided to get serious.
And what a better why to do so than tackle a hot, controversial event that has been debated in this last decade: the war on terror?
0030 gives us another sleep-inducing view on the hunt for bin Laden. We follow the CIA agent Maya, who pursuits the terrorist by interrogating prisoners linked to the terrorist groups. As everybody who saw the news in 2011 knows, the hunt ends up successful.
Bigelow is terrible in action scenes, and manages to screw up the only 'good' part of the film.
Jessica Chastain, who plays Maya, has been praised to heaven and back for her performance; I can't understand why. She is monotonous and tired looking which, while that's the point in certain moments, is rather strange in others; moreover, she is robotic in her line delivery (though, in her defense, most of her lines seem made for a robot anyway). Still, she is alright considering the character she plays: an extremely unlikable character who, in Bigelow's attempt to represent as 'broken' in a show of the effects of emotional turmoil caused by the hunt, ends up as little more than a brooding, impulsive bitch. Despite being described as a 'killer' (comment which is not elaborated upon) near the beginning of the film. she acts on her hunch in many moments, once even saying to a superior (after he points out she doesn't have proof to support her point) that he doesn't know Pakistan or Al-Qaeda like her, so he can't talk back. It baffles me how they would let someone like this kept in charge of the hunt, and even worse: follow her advice!
The hunt was based on a obsessive idiot's guess!
The other characters are not very far behind. The development only makes them more and more unlikable, to the point that it is mostly impossible to connect emotionally with most of them. The dialogue is horrifying: when not overly technical, it is done in such a bad way or with such a bad delivery it is cringe-worthy. And then there's the director choosing silent shots at the wrong times, at times where a dialogue would really contribute to an emotional moment or at least to character development.
It's an extremely boring movie, with unlikable characters, weak dialogue and badly shot action. The last 30 minutes or so are alright, despite being badly shot; but then, you have to survive the first 2 hours, which is not worth it.
The torture scenes, which have caused a lot of controversy, are not bad. They aren't as hardcore as one would image (the ones from 'Unthinkable' were stronger, for example), but I give her props for not shying away from showing them; I expect a lot of people would have left them implied only.