Director:?Kathryn Bigelow
Cast:?Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton
b! Says:?****
While watching ?Zero Dark Thirty? didn?t quite make us want to suck director Kathryn Bigelow?s toenails after, we were left impressed and entertained by this espionage thriller.
Two years after the 9/11 attacks, a bright CIA officer Maya (Jessica Chastain) is sent to work for the US embassy in Pakistan. Her mission is to gather intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden. Nearly a decade goes by with false leads, bureaucratic speedbumps and personal tragedy all threatening to derail the operation, but Maya?s resolve is rock solid until she finally zeroes in on Laden?s hidey hole in Abbottabad.
?Zero Dark Thirty? is occasionally drunk on American patriotism and shock tactic imagery but it?s not a commercial sell-out. Bigelow manages to infuse the right amount of drama (after all, this still IS a movie) into the proceedings without it getting too cheesy.
Experiments pay off. By staying away from used-to-death imagery, Bigelow?s 9/11 recap held our attention and the ambush scenes were far from the GI Joe-meets-Blair Witch Project nightmare this reviewer had expected it to be.
In Maya, the audience has a heroine worth rooting for and Chastain does a brilliant job at portraying her. Other standout cast members are Jason Clarke as interrogator Dan and Kyle Chandler as Maya?s boss.
The story of history?s greatest manhunt for the world?s most dangerous man could not have had a better retelling. Go watch it.
Source: http://know.burrp.com/my-city/zero-dark-thirty-movie-review/49314
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