Zero Dark Thirty film review

Jack Chicalo
Zero Dark Thirty Film Review

              "Zero Dark Thirty" is an action and history movie, but it covers a relatively recent part of history. "Zero Dark Thirty" covers the arduous journey taken in order to track and kill Osama Bin Laden. It was on of the finest hours of our country, killing the man responsible for the deaths of over 3000 innocent people.
               "Zero Dark Thirty" was an excellent film. The intelligence and cleverness of the characters was what captivated me the most. The zombie starts with recordings that took place during the actual event of 9/11. It servered as a reminder of the misery our country felt on that day. Then the main character, Maya (Jessica Chastain) was at a mysterious Black Site torutring a detainee. He mentions the name Abu Ahmed, and she locks on to locating him. She belives he is the key to finding Osama Bin Laden. It turns out her inclination was right. Despite many doubting her, she stayed true to locating him and all of her hard work payed off. The CIA states that a team was responsinle for locating Osama Bin Laden, but "Zero Dark Thirty" pins it all on her. All of maya's work culminated in a single raid on Osama Bin Laden's Compound. At the time of the raid, Maya was the only one who was positive that Osama Bin Laden was hiding out in a city. Many of her peers had their doubts. The raid was succsessful and Osama Bin Laden was killed.
               Jessica Chastain did an excellent job of playing the character Maya. In real life, Maya had to be obsessed with the idea of capturing and killing Osama Bin Laden. Jessica Chastain does an exquisite job of demonstrating this quality. Her performance was truly worthy of an Oscar nomination. Throughout the movie, Maya is seen as emotionless, almost like a machine. Up until the very end of the movie, Maya finally displays some emotion as she cries in the back of a cargo plane. Jessica Chastain shows how Maya was overcome with emotion.  
               This was not the only bloodshed throughout the journey. Maya was actually almost the victim of a terrorist attack on a Marriott in Pakistan. She survived with hardly a scratch. Another close call was when she was pulling out of her house. A group of me began unloading their clips at her car. Maya was only saved by her bullet proof class. Maya's coworkers were not so lucky. One of her colleagues thought she had a lead from a doctor of Osama Bin Laden's. It turned out to be a suicide bombed which became the deadliest day in CIA history.
               Their is a lot of emotion involved in watching "Zero Dark Thirty". Maya has a true sense of determination, not letting anything stop her in her goal of find Osama Bin Laden. Her colleagues say that life is a lot better when you agree with Maya, which is a very telling fact. Even when her life was at stake she wanted to continue gathering intelligence in Pakistan where it is not safe. Patriotism is also a very big theme in this movie. Defeating one of our biggest opponents makes a very good movie.
               This movie was worth the watch. I'd give "Zero Dark Thirty" 9 stars out of 10.