One of cinema greatness "POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT"

Rating: 9/10 (15 January 2013)

I will try not to use any spoilers in this but it's going to be tough.
I came into this film knowing the controversy surrounding it. I was expecting nonstop torture and everyone saying how great torture is. That's not the case, and I'm not sure how many have come to that conclusion about this film. There were very few scenes of actual torture, and it's almost just like you saw in Safe House, except a little more graphic. After that, you don't see anyone really justifying the torture. The movie isn't even about torture, it's about the chase for intel that led us to UBL. As a veteran of Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, this obviously was close to home for me, as it was why all those have served were over there.
That being said, the movie was very good, and I did see a ton of real world tactics being used, which you don't see every day in military genre films. The bad reviews on this film are astounding. Astounding in the fact that the people writing the reviews seemed to be going into this film thinking it's going to be an intense action film or somehow the film is being expected to go into the political aspect of the hunt or the political aspect of torture. I strongly recommend anyone go watch this film, but understand it isn't all about action or torture, or even killing. It's about the hunt that pursued to gather the intelligence that took us to the compounds doorsteps. I liked the acting, I liked the writing, and everything else about the film. I strongly agree with putting it as a front runner for best picture this year.