When doing a fictional
movie based on true events about the 9/11-aftermath you usually have
to take sides. This movie tries to avoid it, but as it focuses on an
American CIA agent it's kind of forced to take a side on the matter.
However it's not a bad thing at all, covering all the sides to a
complicated matter like this would make quite a dull movie to be
honest. But enough of politics and on with the movie. It starts about
2 years after the 9/11, though the events of 9/11 are reminded at the
beginning in a simple but surprisingly effective manner. The movie
follows a CIA agent called Maya, played brilliantly by Jessica
Chastain, on her seemingly impossible efforts to track down Osama Bin
Laden. The movie picks out notable moments during the years most of
you have probably read about in the newspapers and provides a sort of
inside look on how things supposedly looked from the CIA's
perspective. Not really any need to go into the plot any more than
that as it's kind of self-explanatory what's going to happen, unless
you spent 2011 in a closet without any form of communications. The
style of the movie is a bit documentary like, sometimes combining
news footage and surveillance tapes into the film. This does increase
the feel of realism nicely and especially at the end when they go and
get the guy those night vision shots almost puts you in there with
the soldiers. This movie will surely divide opinions, mostly because
of political viewpoints, so it's definitely kind of a provocation.
But I'll look past that and I rate it as a quite a strong drama which
it is with great performances from nearly all of the cast. There are
some problems with it though, pretty much the whole first half of the
movie is a bit dragging and kind of seeking a tone for the rest of
the movie. Sure the first half also brings out some of the big
questions in the movie, like where to draw the line in interrogations
and what are people prepared to do when they believe in something
strongly enough. But all of those we could have gotten in a lot
shorter time as well, though once the movie finally gets going and
the second half kicks in, it's quite brilliant. And just to point the
obvious out, no it doesn't matter that you already know what's going
to happen, so it's well worth watching.
77%
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