Mission accomplished!

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2013)

Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow, with "The Hurt Locker", gave birth to the genre Semi-Fictional-Historic-Thriller. ". "The Hurt Locker" was movie-making at its thrilling best. They have followed it up with "Zero Dark Thirty".
It is really shocking to get to know that Kathryn Bigelow was snubbed a nomination in the Best Director category by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, a nomination that I am quite sure would have fetched an Oscar.
Mark Boal's brilliant screenplay takes us through the events from the eventful day of 9/11 to the day the most wanted man on Earth was terminated.
Jessica Chastain was nominated last year in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Category for the movie "The Help". She plays Maya, a CIA official who spends all her professional life in finding Osama Bin Laden. She is smart, focused and most of all, obsessed with finding Osama Bin Laden and leaves no stone unturned. She follows every lead out of a million leads from all over the world discreetly and narrows it down to his courier man, a man she takes 7 years to locate and confirm, by interrogating detainees all over the world.
She is scoffed at by her all-male superiors and survives an assassination attempt by terrorists in Pakistan. She finally locates the house, a house believed to be offering succour to the Osama Bin Laden and after several months of inactivity, Maya is infuriated by the dilatory approach to terminate Bin Laden. They finally get a green light to terminate him. The SEALs team finishes the job without much difficulty.
Jessica Chastain's performance as a recluse, snubbed by her superiors, but carries on her quest with a stiff upper lip, deserves an Oscar.
The best in the Best Picture category this year.
If you totally hate this movie and want archive footage of all the events that lead to the termination of Osama Bin Laden, kindly watch a documentary.