Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012) by Vincent C — 06 Jan 2014

It is kind of a documentary but not, it shows how much work went into finding and killing bin laden. How for months all sorts of people in all sorts of places spent ages catching people, watching people, setting drone and camera's up, pretending to be other people, getting info out of other people, listening to phone calls and messages.

And how well hidden he actually was, and how close he was to a big town,but how he had well and truely planned his home and everything around it so he could never be seen or caught. That no camera's could be put anywhere, how they couldn't get into the drainage, how they couldn't get in through gates, the high walls, the blanked out windows, the angle the roof was at so you couldn't see people below it, the garden at the back so you couldn't see it etc.

And how he had other people go out for him, but how little slip up's here and there eventually turned into a big slip up and they got there man. And how unplanned and how the main person doing all the leg work was a woman, and how she had to convince some of the most important and powerful people she was right about a hunch and they should take action.

What I hated was the fact the ending was shit. They'd got there man, she confirmed it was him, she got on a plane crying and that was it. It never explained what else they found about bin laden, what they did with him, what happened to her, and why she was crying.

I hate films that don't explain everything, especially films that are based on true storys or on actual life events or global events that need explaining. Other than that it was a really good film, just wish they'd explained the ending better and not just left it like that, for the amount of awards it won.