~Pseudo-documentary-like-thriller~

Rating: 6/10 (19 February 2013)

"Zero Dark Thirty" is a pseudo-documentary-like-thriller revealed a true story that we all know, but didn't surprise us at all. People are hungry these days. Hungry on more information about "what's happening behind capturing Osama", unfortunately ZDT didn't satisfy us in this way.
In the start we can see a very nice modern style Shaky-cam that gives us a pretty good feeling of a documentary itself, until the moment when one realizes that he is in the middle of the cruel tortures of an Iranian prisoner that last horrible 15 minutes! Now let's talk about our main character - Maya. It's woman-centric film, where all story is spinning around her as a CIA operative and her thoughts, and ideas. What I liked in Jessica Chastaine's acting is that we can see full transformation of character starting from her firs interrogation of prisoners following the Al Queda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September till the last moment when they caught Ben Laden in his large compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. She starts as an indecisive and perplexed girl, and then going all the way of becoming a neurotic, assertive "Iron Lady", who didn't have private life, lost her friends, but would not give up on an idea of capturing and killing Osama.
Perhaps in future in could be shown as a fine documentary in schools and colleges, but for average "hungered audience" we need more.