More interesting than i thought

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2013)

I think it is compulsory to watch this movie in order to know what "they" want us to know about what happened with Osama Bin Laden.
First of all I have to say that I personally don't believe any concrete explanation around 9/11, we will never know what really happened, but once i've said this, I think it is interesting to know all perspectives in order to have a general picture, and this movie gives us a very interesting one.
This movie begins with the words "based on true events". After that they "reveal" us part of the investigation since 2001 to find Al-Qaeda members and Bin Laden. Kathryn Bigelow have a decent casting to develop all the characters involved in the story with a little exception, Jessica Chastain, too beautiful, sexy and actress to be the stubborn agent behind desks who, supposedly, was the key person of the whole investigation. I don't know if this fact is kind of a subtle provocation or just a blockbuster inevitable ingredient, but in my opinion it makes the film less believable somehow. Anyway, I must admit the film has a very good rhythm and excellent work of locations, keeping up the tension and the sense of reality all the time.
Spoiler: what surprises me more is the end, I thought a film about this topic would be more "black and white" for the big public, but there is a lot of grey here, which is good. In my opinion they let us to think the third man in the house in Abbottabad could not be the one they were looking for, even despite of the not too clear sequences where they confirm the identity. The other great point is how this movie shows through the investigation how everyone is controlled and the capital weight of mobile phones nowadays and specially in this story.
Apart from the "historic" events, this film can also being watched and enjoyed as a very decent action, thriller and investigation movie.