Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty,

I give this film: 8 Lee's / 10
This films had a heavy cross to carry and it did it so well. I do think we are now allowed to mourn and move on. The technical and truly Oscar award winning "stuff" that was put into this movie were well timed and deserved all the awards it did.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Running time: 160 minutes
Screenplay: Mark Boal
Awards: Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, National Board of Review Award for Best Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama Film, National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Editing,BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, National Board of Review Award for Best Director,New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture, Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay
Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American historical drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.

Can I just kick off and say... YAWN! Great, so America caught the “baddest” of all bad guys ever. This topic has now come to the point of over publicizing something to death - there has been at least 4 films that I can think of off the top of my head(no Google used here) that has been tackling this issue. For Example: Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud, Twin Towers, Argo, This (Zero Dark Thirty) and who can forget Flight 93 of which 2 versions were made one for cinema and one for TV, am I getting my point across or what?
Let’s be honest, I'm not disregarding what happened in the history books i mean 9/11 will stay with all of us, as some may have had more personal connections to the tragedy of the century, than with others - but still. Personally I feel that this movie should have been waited with and made in many years to come, when people are in love with history again. Sure the movie did very well with regards to the amount of awards it won - let’s take a moment to review them.  For the most part this movie was technically done well, with an amazing director and screenplay the actress didn't have a choice but to be great.

Technically(regarding the technical aspects) this film was brilliant - the screenplay was factual and did justice to the people involved, the Director knew what she was getting herself into and she blew everyone out of the water, the Artistic aspects regarding the attention to detail and the depiction of style and fashion trends was researched very well even though some of this played off in the late 90s trends and finished in the current change over it was followed thought nicely keeping to the characters, the use of light and dark was so well done and at times I had goose bumps sitting there not knowing what I was looking at, the sound did lack at times where I couldn't figure out what the people were saying but the message came across. The soundtrack to this was chosen very wisely, and the cinematography started out and ended off brilliantly, and then the way in which the edit brought all these different elements together, I truly felt that I was part of this race against time to catch on what they now call the greatest manhunt ever.

But it lacked heart, I don't know if the director deliberately didn't want the audience to fully gauge in the film on an emotional level and if they decided to rather keep is at arm’s length and clinical, who knows. All I can say is that I did not feel the heart in the story there was just no way I would be able to connect to any of the characters - given that they did portray real life people who are still alive(some of them anyway). BUT if you look at other films that portray historical points, the actors truly became the icon - look at Helen Mirren in the Queen, now there is a film that I thoroughly enjoyed, I could feel that the Queen was actually concerned and yet she had to keep herself cold and clinical, what the Director did was tell a story about a lioness protecting her young, which in this case was her family and the people.

Looking back at this film I realize that we need to time travel back to the 70's and come back through to the 90s where films were made for pure entertainment, nowadays going to the cinema feels more like watching the news. 

Let’s just tell stories again, like in the old days.