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    Written January 12, 2013

    ZERO DARK THIRTY

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    I hate to give this film a NO but both my husband and I found it tedious to watch. We really didn't learn any more than we knew before. It certainly wasn't made for pure entertainment value. It was hardly entertaining. It is a docudrama about the events leading up to the capture of Osama Bin Laden, this covers a period of about 10 years and while watching you feel like every minute of it! Also feel the filmmaker exploited the torture scenes and this will be used against our troops around the world.

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    Written January 12, 2013

    not for the easily bored

    by dondef

    i saw the trailer for this movie a few times. and i've watched the full documentary of this raid on cable.. (i forgot if it was military channel or history channel)

    anyway, its not what i expected. if you were expecting that its going to be more concentrated on the raid, then you're wrong.. its mostly a docu-drama on the CIA's perspective. the first twentyminutes will show you the process of how they interrogate people. and the fun of it. but after they get you pumped up, you need the patience to sit for 2 hours listening to the CIA's office drama. then finally, 10 minutes in the end show you the raid.

    if you still want to sit and watch this poor excuse of a movie, then this is for you.

    FINAL SAY: ACT OF VALOR was much better of a movie if you wanted to see our navy seals in action.

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    Written January 17, 2013

    Every word is a lie

    by Savannah Nan

    It's very difficult to understand why this movie is getting rave reviews. It is not fact-based by any means, as there were hundreds of CIA officers and analysts looking at information for 10 years to find Bin Laden. There was too much information for one person to come up with a "hunch" that would be acted on.

    The acting is wooden, sterile, emotionless. Okay, maybe that's the way spies are, but it doesn't make the movie any more better. Look, they couldn't even pronouce two place names correctly (Kabul and Peshawar are mangled), so how much of the movie is true?

    Two hours of exposition to get to 20 minutes of raid, and the raid was so realistic that you couldn't see anything in the dark. Not even any close-ups of the famous Seal Team Six dog, Cairo, or his acting twin, just a glimpse of him on a leash.

    Don't bother with this movie, or if you go, reduce your expectations. It's not Oscar-worthy.

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    Written January 14, 2013

    Great acting, needs editing- 20 minutes too long

    by Bluebird217

    Acting was great. Opening scenes of torture may be accurate, but they are repulsive. Movie is 20 minutes too long and that's all there is to it. It needed editing: too much development of some characters and it bogged down in the middle. By the time the action kicked in, I had been squirming in my chair for 20 minutes. Intellectual dialogue does not have to = droning on and on.

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    Written January 13, 2013

    Kind of a Snore

    by wendymink

    The only "drama" in this slick, flat movie came from torture, military invasion, and surprise bombings. The characters were one dimensional, the story was incomplete, and the filmmakers seemed unaware of the moral and political complexity of their subject. The controversy surrounding the film as to whether torture "works" speaks to the banality of the film and moral corruption of our debate about torture. If torture "works" -- does that make torture ok?

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    Written January 13, 2013

    Flawed Revenge

    by drloco55

    The basic theme of this movie is revenge, wrapped in the gift papers of American patriotism and the new ethic of female machoism. It is seriously flawed, in spite of all the superlative hype. I would start with the ending, which as an add-on (due to recent current events) is too long and not climatic or creative. Maya, the protagonist, is well played though her striking beauty makes her somewhat unbelievable as a CIA operative trying to blend in another culture. This movie purports to be realistic and near journalistic in its scope, but several near laughable scenes of Maya referring to herself as a m----- f-----, Maya on the tarmac alone with the helicopters, Maya opening the body bag, seem to lean towards a superhero movie on the order of Wonder Woman. Finally, although there are beautiful scenes of life in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the movie contributes virtually nothing to understanding the fabric of those cultures.

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