Drawn out...could have been more compelling

Rating: 4/10 (19 August 2016)

One of my relatives raved on about Zero Dark Thirty so I thought it would be a 9/11 movie worth watching. Paul Greengrass's United 93 was absolutely compelling, so in a way Zero Dark Thirty would represent the bookend with (spoiler alert) the death of Osama bin Laden.
I thought I was the only viewer who thought this, but it really was drawn out big time. Okay, the movie had a decade to cover before the assassination of bin Laden in Pakistan (near a West Point-type military base believe it or not), but maybe the movie needed Jason Bourne or Brad Cooper to move things along to the denouement.
One thing Zero Dark Thirty glossed over was the bigotry and prejudice unleashed after 9/11...the racial/religious profiling at airports for one thing, flight attendants getting all edgy and alert just because they see a passenger (who looks different if you know what I mean) reading a book about Syria. Unfortunately it continues to this day, the Indian Ambassador to the USA being given special screening treatment by the geniuses the TSA employ to keep our airports "safe".