Genre:
Action / Thriller
Directed
by: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring:
Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton
Running
time: 157 minutes
Zero Dark Thirty depicts the manhunt for
Osama Bin Laden that lasted over 10 years after the attacks of September 11th
2001, through the eyes of Maya, a young CIA officer who had spent all of her
short career working on this case.
This film has won more awards than I care to
name here, and I have a feeling that seeing it so long afterwards while knowing
of those accolades might have skewed my appreciation of it. I expected so much
that I could not help feeling disappointed in the end.
The movie started and I quickly felt like
there was so great filmmaking at work. I was pulled in as a viewer. Some of
those interrogation and torture scenes are hard to take, but I have a strong
stomach and I love to be shaken as a cinephile. That stuff was well done, it
felt real. Unfortunately, as the film went on, it kept on moving in different
directions and it all kept piling on; by the end of it, I could not wait for
the closing credits. And at close to three hours, this is a long ride if you
keep looking at the time left.
Maybe I was not in the right mood and I
should give this another try at a later time, but, while this film has great
qualities, it also has great flaws in my book.
Rating:
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