Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012) by Tubby T — 01 Aug 2013

I remember looking forward to this movie. I then went to see it. I walked out. My mind was blown. This was my favourite movie of 2012. It's just a masterpiece. The makers of this movie did something unbelievable: they made a movie where you know what the outcome is suspenseful. The raid of the house at the end is some of the best film making I've ever seen. The way Kathryn Bigelow used the soldier's night vision goggles is just genius. Every little noise in that scene made me jump. It was fantastic.

I hear lots of people say that this movie was boring, but I wasn't bored at all. This movie kept my attention for all 2 hours and 37 minutes.

I do have two problems with the movie: the torture scene at the beginning was a little excessive and I feel that it set up a slightly wrong tone for the rest of the movie (but it was close).

My other complaint is (and several other people have pointed this out as well) there seems to be a lack of character development. There was some for Maya, but not a lot for the other characters. In the beginning Maya was not really used to the torturing and war ( as seen in the beginning) but she later grows to be a bad ass person who will literally stop at nothing to achieve her goal.

My score for Zero Dark Thirty is a 10 out of 10.