Smurfin' The Web's Blog Review Of Zero Dark Thirty

Rating: 2/10 (18 January 2013)

What I Thought: What a dull movie. I'm sorry, but this was really dragged out to fill a huge 2 hours 30 minutes that it just didn't need to. The plot is simple, the twin towers came down and they go look for Bin Laden. Along the way there is some torture of prisoners (of course without the full knowledge of the government.yeah right!) and small snippets of information are eventually gathered together by Maya played by Jessica Chastain, and it finally reveals the location of a stronghold in Pakistan where they believe Bin Laden is living. Cue Navy Seal Team 6.
The film played out like an extended edition of Homeland (which I no longer watch owing to Claire Danes incessant snivelling) and I fail to see what the big deal about this film among critics is. Yes it's nicely shot, reasonably well-directed, and I suppose the Americans will like this much better because of the back story, but it is nowhere as good as The Hurt Locker, that at least had some things happening throughout. I just found Zero Dark Thirty a dull plod along paced film and the hype about it just isn't warranted in my opinion.
Conclusions: Dull, one paced, Jessica Chastain is about as convincing as a CIA interrogator as my grannie would be and I think it has only got on the list Best Picture list to pad it out. Bigelow needs to move away from the war thing now, it's getting very tired. This didn't entertain me.