This is what Kathryn Bigelow deserves Oscars for.

Rating: 10/10 (9 February 2013)

I'm not going to lie: I always thought The Hurt Locker was overrated. It's a good movie, I can't deny that. I also love Jeremy Renner's performance. It's also original, but I just never really found anything that special in it. There isn't a whole lot of story. But Kathryn Bigelow scored big with it, and she won two Oscars. Now, three years later, she has brought us another journey into the danger zone, and this one is a true story. And it's a lot better.
Zero Dark Thirty is her new movie, and she is the perfect director have reigns of this baby. Zero Dark Thirty is a thriller that is even thrilling when it's not. I had absolutely no fingernails left by the time this was over. I'm not exactly sure of the accuracies of it all, but I don't really care.
Jessica Chastain deserved her Oscar nomination and possible win as Maya, a C.I.A. agent who probably doesn't sleep. You can tell. Maya isn't an actual person. There was someone like her involved in the operation, but Maya is based off of her. The films tells of the decade long manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, basically.
What I like about a movie like Zero Dark Thirty is that we already know the ending, we just can't wait to see how we got there. The movie isn't as action packed as you might expect. A lot of it takes place within the C.I.A. headquarters, but each one of those scenes is expertly written by Hurt Locker writer Mark Boal. ZDT really cooks in the last half hour. What am I saying? The whole thing is a white knuckler.
I'm so glad that Jessica Chastain was brought into Hollywood.She's an excellent actress and I always look forward to what she has in the future. She could go home with an Oscar on the big night. As for the movie itself, it's momentum has sort of died out, considering the fact that it only has five nominations. One of them is not best director.
Why wouldn't they nominate her? I understand the nominations for Steven Spielberg, and Michael Haneke. But I would have easily put her over Benh Zeitlin, Ang Lee, and David O'Russell, no disrespect to either of those directors. I think that this is one of the years great movies, and there were plenty of them.
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