Not accurate at all

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2017)

I'm getting tired of films advertising themselves as based on the truth, first hand accounts etc... when they're not. I don't mind having a strong female lead that did more than in reality, but I do mind when the audience is given the impression she was the only one working her ass off and being smart about this bin Laden hunt...
I also do mind when we're being shown that torture works, while it's been proved that it mostly produces lies from prisoners to escape said tortures. Lies that need to be investigated, and that waste resources. I also do mind when, again, Navy SEALs are shown as gung-ho morons. And of course I do mind stupid stuff such as making Pakistanis speak the wrong language, showing a movie that spans 10 years without the actors aging a single day (ever heard of MAKE UP ARTISTS ?), or depicting the CIA as stupid idiots, particularly the bosses.
And finally I think the lead role is weak. I don't know what happened to Jessica Chastain but I could throw a rock at a train station and hit a more convincing person to play a CIA agent... It has a lot to do with the writers too. Could you set up a character LESS ? We have no idea who she is. Still don't at the end of the movie. In fact it's true of ALL characters in the movie. The audience don't care about those characters. Maybe it was on purpose because we're supposed to focus on the hunt and the true facts ? Except that it's all distorted, those aren't the true facts, because it's classified...
Anyway it's a half-assed movie for a subject that deserved a LOT more.