"Zero Dark Thirty" (2012)
On their Oscar-winning work on 2009’s Best
Picture “The Hurt Locker”, director/producer Kathryn Bigelow and
screenwriter/producer Mark Boal brought us the most memorable war movie of the
first decade of the 21st century. Now, they bring us a film that’s
even more intense and much more epic in scope. “Zero Dark Thirty” is like
nothing you’ve ever seen before. Just like the 1976 classic thriller “All the
President’s Men”, this is a situation where we all know the outcome, but it
plays like an edge-of-your-seat thriller. That, my friends, is great
filmmaking.
From the power, sudden yet powerful
invocation of 9/11 to a half dozen years of interrogation, torture sessions,
false leads and the loss of many of lives, “Zero Dark Thirty” is fiction, but
it is a firmly accurate depiction of the hunt and eventual killing of Osama bin
Laden.
Jessica Chastain gives the best performance
of her career yet as Maya, a CIA agent who tries numerous times to track down
bin Laden, and finally does to his compound in Pakistan. The final 45 minutes
of the film, with the compound raid, is one of the most intense scenes I’ve
ever seen. I’ve been doing this job for three years, and I can honestly say,
“Zero Dark Thirty” is one of the best military movies of all time!
Grade: A+, 4/4 stars!
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