Based on Actual Events!

Rating: 8/10 (12 August 2015)

Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow has delivered a great dramatic film. Based on actual events, the film shows the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Jessica Chastain is a perfect choice for Maya. Chastain is a brilliant actress and worth watching for. She reminds me of a young Katharine Hepburn with red hair. Bigelow does a great job in building for an exciting climax. I felt the ending was abrupt like what happened to everybody. The film can be slow at times especially the first hour. The film recreated the compound true to the actual one. I watched the film in French but understood it without subtitles. The supporting cast are first rate with James Gandolfini as the CIA director. Chastain's Maya is relentless and determined to find and kill Bin Laden known as UBL. It is nice to see a female character like Maya in a very masculine film. Jennifer Ehle plays Jessica, a fellow CIA agent. Maya and Jessica are strong, intelligent females equaled to their male agents. It is nice to see women not portrayed as vulnerable, weak and incomplete without a man and baby in their lives. The film is as truthful and faithful to the story.