Barely a Movie

Rating: 3/10 (20 January 2013)

The only compelling scene was the actual raid at the end. I found myself on the brink of falling asleep multiple times throughout the movie, and yet one thing kept me from letting myself fall. I kept thinking about the inevitable capture of Bin Laden that would occur at the end of the movie.
That notion of eventual payoff was literally the only thing that kept me in my seat throughout the movie. There was no interesting aspect of the story line that kept me interested in the movie in any way. I found all of the characters shallow and felt that, despite the directors focus on Maya at the end of the movie, it was never about her, but about the hunt for Osama.
I feel that, to qualify something with this much hype as a movie, it must have some semblance of compelling story line existing throughout the movie. I mean, sure, make the climax of the story the death of Bin Laden, but add more depth to the characters, include a side story that reveals some aspect of any of the main characters and keeps the audience interested. It seems to me that the writer and director knew exactly how they wanted the film to end, but did not plan on having anything but build up before it.