A Fantastic Fiction Based on a Historic Event

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2013)

IMHO this is the absolute worst of movies. They had the biggest story to tell since the death of Hitler and they made a day time soap out of it.
Here are my reasons: 1) Bad/overacting acting...by almost everyone except Jessica (Maya)
2) Who writes such script?...sounds like a school play. Bad dialog..."I am the mother*****r who found that house."....was the rock bottom which to me sounded like a daytime soap.
3) Factual inaccuracies abound...starting from the premise that torture yielded actionable info leading to OBL. Also if you want to show enhanced interrogation show it properly. I remember torture scenes from Syriana that churned my stomach. EDIT If you look into the torture scenes one detainee is being made to stand forcibly by tying his arms to the ceiling....fine. But in almost every scene that was transitioning showing his arms bound to the ceiling...his arm kept moving too much upwards in one scene to very slack in another that it almost got quite distracting for me to focus on anything but the angle of the arms. This is clearly an amateur mistake. I am sure others will pick up similar other silly things. Perhaps the only reason I will re-watch the movie when it is available in DVD is to get kicks out of them.
4) A string of incidents we all read in the papers starting from the bombing of the Karachi Marriot, to double agent CIA suicide bombing, to unmasking of CIA operative in Pakistan after a shooting incident have been strung together as if it is a fact that they all had something to do with the hunt for OBL. Somehow the characters were forced to be a part of all the incidents.
5) There is a scene where the CIA deputy director gives everyone a dressing down on how incompetent a job they are doing in tracking OBL and thwarting terrorist acts...and he slams the table as he makes a point. EDIT This outburst was rendered somewhat comical due to the timing of the table slamming which if you watch closely is slightly off-timed and that millisecond difference made it look fake/comical emotional outburst.
6) The depiction of what was perhaps a nail-biting raid on OBL residence was slow, boring and lacked drama. Katherine Bigelow should learn from movies like Green Zone, Syriana, Argo, Rendition how to maintain taught tension (even though viewers know how it ends).
7) Also this happens right under the nose of Pak Agencies and nothing except a few passing reference to the ISI is made. What was the relationship between the CIA and ISI, the spy Vs spy angle the back channel communications or failure of back channels...so much have not been explored. (see movies like Fourth Protocol, Quiet American, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and you will get an idea what I mean).
This movie depicts arguably one of the biggest historical events since the death of Hitler and fails in historic proportions in doing so. Honestly this movie would have been so much better if it came out some 20-25 years later after some of the documents gets declassified and we know for real what actually happened rather than going on a fictional trip where perhaps the only real historically correct event shown was the death of OBL.
I sincerely hope someone with better skill, writing ability doing proper research does justice to this historical event and not just pander to the jingoist.