Overrated, but still OK.

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2013)

Zero Dark Thirty follows the extensive 10-year search for Osama Bin Laden by a persuasive CIA agent called Maya played by Jessica Chastain.
I had pre conceived notions that this film was going to be good. I had read reviews before hand and the main complaints were that it was slow and boring at the beginning and it picked up incredibly fast and became great at the end. For me it was the other way around. I loved the first half, however overplayed it was, and didn't enjoy the second half as much. I personally found this film to be very overrated and it's failed attempts at tension just didn't fit. And supposedly everything in this film is more truer to life than any other based on real events films, which is ironic because I didn't like Argo due to it's dramatized ending.
I wasn't the biggest fan of The Hurt Locker, I tend to disapprove of shaky camera-work and just didn't find any the characters intriguing. That wasn't necessarily the case here, as I found Maya to be interesting, and then when it drifted away from her struggle for about 30 minutes the whole film seemed like it went downhill fast. And, to be honest, Jessica Chastain was great and all, but she wasn't as fantastic as everyone claims. Also, in my head, the climactic scene played out a lot better but when I saw it, I felt no climax. The climactic, finishing scene in my opinion was very anti-climactic.
I wanted so much to enjoy this film, but unfortunately I didn't. It was prolonged and lacked any emotion it so desperately attempted to attain. It has it's good points, but the bad outweigh the good ten fold, and that is why I think it deserves a low 6.