Could have been better

Rating: 7/10 (19 July 2013)

(I have added a spoiler alert for those who have yet to see the film and do not know anything about what happened from the news at the time!) Well I have finally seen this on DVD and was a little disappointed actually! The story lead in and characters were too sketchy; it clearly wasn't a drama documentary but seemed unwilling to commit at the human interest level either. The bizarre handling of the Doctor assassin seems to reinforce the impression of the contemporary news coverage - what were they doing re security????? And the stupidity of the chap driving around in the same distinctive white car and using the same mobile 'phone ditto. What would be really interesting is an analysis of whether it ought to have taken them that long to locate him - and did the CIA really lose interest and leave it to one keen agent and a few henchmen? The actual raid was well done though - in fact the SEALS developed their characters far more in the last 30mins than the others had in the previous couple of hours... Oh and John Barrowman's brief appearance was a bit distracting!