It was nominated in five categories at the 85th Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Actress for Chastain, Best Original Screenplay , and Best Film Editing , and won the award for Best Sound Editing , shared with Skyfall .
Doesn't attempt to hide the brutal intensity of situations. One of two 2012 movies to feature Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke. A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The movie is like a police procedural as Maya meticulously goes through interviews, wire taps, and other sources of intelligence to try to find where bin Laden was hiding. I would recommend it. He then turned up stories about a young case officer who was recruited out of college, who had spent her entire career chasing bin Laden. The director, I would prefer to arrange by genre, episode, number in franchise so that I could group my movies together instead of having a hodge podge to sort through!
Screenwriter Mark Boal had to share his script with CIA officers, and they removed a scene where a drunk CIA officer fires an AK-47 into the air from a rooftop in Islamabad.
Unlike many war movies, Zero Dark Thirty presents a more interesting, realistic portrayal of modern espionage and combat. Its gritty, its difficult to watch in places, it painfully tests your morality and aceptability in what is right and wrong, those steps and the line which must not or must be crossed to achieve the end result(s). But it was. Another
Highly recommended. A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his And, importantly, whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those detainees, as the film suggests, is a matter of debate that cannot and never will be definitively resolved.Screenwriter Boal described the pro-torture accusations as "preposterous", stating that "it's just misreading the film to say that it shows torture leading to the information about bin Laden", while director Bigelow added: "Do I wish [torture] was not part of that history? Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Not what I was expecting in a very good way. The breed of dog used in the movie is a German Shepherd.) Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. It is very unlikely for this number plate to be issued in Pakistan. Anti-radar cladding, like that of the F-117 stealth fighter, helped them avoid detection by Pakistani air defenses, and the extra blades in the main rotors and tail rotors produced less noise than the standard rotors. "The film appeared on 95 critics' top ten lists of 2012, seventeen of which placed the film at #1.There is much else to say about the movie, which ends with the harrowing siege of Bin Laden's hideaway by the Navy SEALs (played by, among others, Joel Edgerton and Chris Pratt), much of it shot to approximate the queasy, weirdly unreal green of night-vision goggles. Basically a US trumpet blowing film that drags on for ever! In "No Easy Day," the first-hand account of the attack and killing of I don't have a blu ray player right now. This pitches well the inertia and somewhat disbelief in the analysis. The CIA's mission to track down Bin Laden is portrayed with all the appropriate ambiguities, setbacks, and bureaucratic red tape that were actually involved with that mission. Focuses on the black ops mission to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
Whilst this is certainly superior, in every way, to 'Code Name-Geronimo' it is let down by the two female CIA/FBI?operatives who behave like juvenile school children throughout the film which detracts from its chilling core component. The climactic sequence devoted to the raid on Osama's compound runs about 25 minutes, only a few minutes less than the real-life SEALs assault.
And this has a Hollywood polish, but as a veneer over the gritty and harsh reality. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. Ms. Bigelow's direction here is unexpectedly stunning, at once bold and intimate: she has a genius for infusing even large-scale action set pieces with the human element.
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.