Zero Dark Thirty

5/10

The whole entire film was pretty droll. The exciting part, which was the inevitable end of them killing Osama Bin Laden was a huge letdown. Without giving too much away, I will just say this: my friend and I thought a better ending to this troll of an ending would be for them to switch to stop motion animation or gameplay of Halo 3. If you're going to be a troll movie mine was well do it all the way!

Jessica Chastain's character was fairly emotionless up until the very end where she cried, and to be honest who the smurf cares? That wasn't even the most relieving cry I've seen in a film. She ain't gonna win. The torture scenes were not as shocking as everyone says they are. Watch Audition or something if you really want to be shocked by torture. This film was a film about a woman in a powerful position not seen as powerful; so basically it's a story sort of about Kathryn Bigelow in a not so subtle way. I only wish it were a lot more thrilling like The Hurt Locker was. Admittedly, that film had to grow of me, and maybe some day this one will too...nah.

I'll be updating this with reviews of Argo and Silver Linings Playbook after I receive those FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION screeners.