Now we have reached the third installment towards the spy movie genre of 2012, only this time this was based a year before it happened a year ago which when you think about it was that's hands down the shortest and quickest movie adaptions ever. Zero Dark Thirty, is the actual real life talking about the greatest manhunt for public enemy number one Osama Bin-Laden the master mind behind September 11, 2001, when two planes destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City. I tell you deep down where I was, the moment it broke out, I basically was working at job at Local TV, early in the morning and the next thing I know is that once I looked up in our monitors that Osama Bin-Laden was found and killed, for which in all honesty was a little bit of a surprised because I never thought in a million years we would ever get him, until 2011 when I was proven wrong. Then when I heard about that they are making a movie about the Manhunt, I was a little on the weary side for many reasons it's all confidential so how the hell are you able to make this movie happen when C.I.A has it all locked up? I guess with a great writer in Mark Boal along with a smart director in Academy Award Winner Kathryn Bigelow, anything can be possible.
Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Osama Bin Laden becomes one of the most-wanted men on the planet. The worldwide manhunt for the terrorist leader occupies the resources and attention of two U.S. presidential administrations. Ultimately, it is the work of a dedicated female operative (Jessica Chastain) that proves instrumental in finally locating bin Laden. In May 2011, Navy Seal's launch a nighttime strike, killing bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
I will say having now watched the movie after ten years ago, this is a more interesting and complex film I have ever watched in terms of wanting to know what is real or what is not. Mainly because you as an audience member would not now what would be true because this was all in secret moreover don't have a clue if all of these characters were based on or not, of course yes majority of these characters have to be based on these spies that worked on the manhunt but the problem is you will never know, for obvious reasons the C.I.A won't give out that basic information. So, in all honesty you must just accept that this was all in fact because Mark Boal is a smart writer, who is both a freelance journalist and screenwriter who does know how to keep the facts checked and the fiction a mystery. Though I still can't even stop thinking about it how this film was about to be made despite the fact that the event took place a year ago, moreover the C.I.A has to keep it as secret even with the whole manhunt and the years of finding bin Laden even once they discovered his compound, but when you think about it the White House had to of leaked some information of what and how they tracked him down even amongst bin Laden's followers. As a movie alone this a great written film and directed film that shows all the works of being a spy working for the United States government and the mentality of doing whatever it takes to find the most wanted man. Both Boal and Bigelow won Academy Awards for their outstanding work on the Hurt Locker, so once you know that these two are working on a project like this or once you see their names on the trailer you know hands down that they are not going to fail, especially when telling a story like this. Though watching the film now, I have to say there are some moments in the film where they could at least cut down, like you can have one or two scenes of torturing a guy but not have so many because you are basically turning into a sick and twisted person. The difference between both the Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty is that every bomb scene in Hurt Locker was just on the edge of your seat until the disarm the bomb, Zero Dark Thirty does have its moments of suspense but there are moments where you do not feel on the edge of your seat in certain scenes but then gets interesting in the final act when they get to the Seal team at the compound. I have to say the one scene that brought back a memory that's so obscure and funny was the Area 51 scene where they're briefing the Navy Seal team, and it wasn't about the helicopters it was that years ago I remember that people were ready to storm Area 51, because they were wanting to know or demand that the government was keeping aliens, which is so funny because people do and still do believe it but in all actuality Area 51 is a place that keeps top secret stuff that shouldn't see the light of day like the Helicopters the Seal Team flew on. The filming of the compound storming was probably the most interesting and fantastic sequence film on screen, for which yes you know that bin Laden was killed by the team, but it is really the how they stormed the compound was great and both suspenseful at the same time, I know this sounds convenient, but I know where the guys at Call of Duty get their inspiration from, just saying. No question that this was the one movie that boosted Jessica Chastain into a superstar, no doubt about that though the good thing about it was that it showed her that she was able to play a strong operative that will stop at nothing to find and kill bin Laden. The bad thing a side from the over the top acting which is funny but it also is kind of a curse because she continues to do that throughout her entire career, when it comes to action movies in general or other suspense filled movies, granted she's made some good movies like Molly's Game and I haven't seen the one that got her an Academy Award so I could be wrong but deep down when it comes to action films she's always over the top and wanting to teach everyone a lesson and I don't want to be lectured. Jason Clarke does a great job in this movie as the operative that shows Chastain's character the ropes when it comes to interrogation, and I am not joking because he has the best one liner in the whole movie. Joel Edgerton and Chris Pratt both do a good job in this movie playing the Seal Team 6, despite their lack of screen time, and even British actors like Mark Strong and Stannis Baratheon do a good job in the movie too disguised as Americans for which I am so intrigued as to how they can acquire those accents. Hands down this is a great movie from start to finish, though not as good as the Hurt Locker but defiantly worth seeing after ten years since it is release.
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