Zero Dark Thirty

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You learn virtually nothing about the main character - why is she doing this, what is she like, what motivates her, does she have any doubts, hopes, anything? Since the character is so uninvolving, it's difficult to care about the success of the mission. The whole plot remains on the surface, there is no probing into any question on either side. It's not unpleasant to watch, but it's really unclear why this film was made.

Sadistic perverted characterless and crushingly boring. One star? good title

Disjointed and un engaging. Not worth watching.

Oh My Word, this is a terrible film. They never even tell you why it's called Zero Dark Thirty, but having survived two and half hours of this rubbish the only thing imperative to know is where the exit or off button is. It's difficult to know where to start. All I can do is state here at the beginning that you should save your money, and your time, and spend the two and half hours you would otherwise evaporate by watching this film on something useful. From the start the piece is conceited and trivialises very serious issues in a way that suggests the film makers assumed the IQ of their audience would be very low. Perhaps this is also the reason it contains every cliche that seems to afflict any film of this 'genre'. Cliches abound. You've got conversations that are so serious that all the interlocutors walk in formation facing apart from one another whilst striding down serious corridors. They use foul language constantly, presumably because it shows they're 'real'. You've got a protagonist who apparently is intellectually gifted, which supposedly is evident from moments like putting food in her mouth before starting a conversation and speaking around the cud, again whilst not actually looking at the person she's apparently having a conversation with. It also seems to be obligatory to have staff speaking to one another or being spoken to like rubbish when having high powered conversations. It's despair inducing that it's assumed that actual work gets done whilst behaving like this. Worse still people watching conceited films like this, might go onto behave like this in the real world, allowing it to inform their behaviour even though they may think their assumptions on how to behave professionally are entirely their own. It's also a worry that as a 'cultural export' there will be people watching this film around the world getting the impression that to any extent people in the West share the moral poverty of these characters. Naturally that's a totally separate issue, but who's going to tell them that? Bigalow must take responsibility for the short comings of her film. This appears to have been a 'worthy' project. After the Hurt Locker she seems to have been deemed persona grata and given cooperation to make this puerile film. Don't get me wrong. I say here that if I was to make a film I'm sure it would be unwatchable, but that's why I'm not involved in film making. I may have missed even more points I could have included here, but I could only bear to watch the film once. Even the lead actress appears to recognise she's lent herself to an awful production, in her last scene where the character indulges in an advanced blubbing masterclass, presumably she's partly grief stricken at the death of what should have been a promising career. Perhaps I've been a little harsh, but where should the buck stop with something as execrable this? Jennifer Ehle deserves praise though. It was only when the credits ran that I recognised it was her. Now that's what can be called a class act.

Yes, I know this is not really real and just a glimpse of what we are allowed to know or similar. However, it is very well done in terms of being on edge at times while being really boring at times as intel can be. The end needed to be better for me personally because it left too much in limbo. But, the bottom line is that it is what it is and if you like this sort of film you will be mostly satisfied.

Doesn't really capture the drama and was far too long but maybe worth a watch.

Libtard koolaid drinkers have been ordered to hate this flick. Fair enough, they can go Google "Iraq Yellowcake Uranium" instead, hippies need educating too. This film is very thought provoking. The Obama administation allowed unprecedented access to US state secrets for he producers (RIP SEAL Team 6 members killed as a result in Afg.) This film is an important historical document on Barry "Peace Prize" Obama's assault on American security.

4/5 *'s for me guys... I personally love Mark Strong and the late James Gandolfini (what can we not say about him, huh?) forget about it... If you find the whole anti-terrorism concept fascinating as I do and enjoyed series such as the recent 'HomeLand' then you'll love this movie...

Not worth the one star I have given this movie.