Hey Bigelow: I want my 2 and a half hours back!

Rating: 2/10 (4 March 2013)

It's one thing to be conservative revisionist/apologist propaganda... (which this most certainly is) but it's another to be a BAD movie.
I could hardly believe that this was from the same director that brought us Hurt Locker. To call the directing of Ms. Chastain "ham-fisted" would be a compliment. No subtleties here.
We are hammered over the head with the "Maya against the world" message so frequently, you'd expect the movie to be subtitled "Zero Dark Thirty: How Girl Power Saved the World."
Oh, and did I mention that there's no tension? Except for the 30 minutes of torture porn that opens the film and the compound raid at the end (which I'm sure most of the movie-going public sat through the movie for) the action is a badly done procedural featuring Maya's repeated bumping against the CIA's glass ceiling.
The tears she sheds in the closing shot might well be for her empty life or they could be in relief at finally achieving her myopic goal. But my bet is that the actress' true motivation was that this nightmare of a movie was finally over.