Good but not as good as "Hurt Locker."

Rating: 6/10 (3 March 2013)

"Zero Dark Thirty" is unfortunately not "The Hurt Locker." The success of "Hurt Locker" was its attention to detail and well-formed characters. Boal and Bigelow scrape together office loads of people and create the rather annoying heroine, Maya, played by Jessica Chastain. A woman who in the middle of the Afghan desert still has the ability to have perfectly pressed clothes and coiffed hair. Her acting was way over-wrought. The fight between Maya and her supervisor seemed cliché. The movie felt like a made-for-TV reenactment. Unlike "Argo," this movie had little suspense. It went through the motions without giving the audience anything to care about. Sure, Bin Laden was killed. Okay great. I didn't feel anything for Maya. This was a good movie, but certainly not Oscar worthy.