A huge anti climax.

Rating: 3/10 (21 January 2013)

Okay, so we know how this movie is going to end if nothing else. Which is just as well, as all the mishmash and underwhelming 'drama' leading up to the helicopters taking off for the final mission was so unengaging - if not downright audibly incomprehensible?
The torture scenes were not gratuitously over the top. In fact, I would speculate that they were deliberately downplayed so as not to emphasise (or glorify) what we already knew (the US engaged in torture - period).
The helicopters taking off were a blessed relief but if the hoodwinked viewer was expecting a rapturous firefight to finish proceedings, with a startled Osama lookalike's face frozen in the semi-darkness then even that was to be denied.
If this was to dramatise the events leading up to UBL's (shouldn't that be OBL?) demise, how come there's no high-fives from the White House bunker?
This could have (and should have) been so much more insightful, instead it falls woefully short on substance.
As for Oscar nominated status? Skyfall was 20 times better...