I was in Afghanistan, it's not like this

I wonder how factual the movie was?

A tiresome movie, directed by somebody who has given up trying to depict life and will only go for cheap effects--the nonsensical scrawling on a glass door by Chastain, trying to awake some interest in finding Bin Laden, among many others. The torture scenes are dull and drawn out, which tries my patience greatly. Best to avoid this one.

Amazing that no matter how many times you watch Zero Dark Thirty, the final half hour remains gripping. And speaking of amazing, how can Jessica Chastain so convincingly interpret both Celia Foote in The Help and Maya here? Astonishing range for one actor.

To:loonylovesgood, several of his adult sons are Terrorists as well. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. For those on here criticizing Trump for the so called torture methods the prior administration didn’t want to use, I’d rather see a thousand dead terrorists than ONE innocent life of our great men and women in uniform. Under Trump, our special forces just took out the number one reigning terrorist. The coward ran into a tunnel taking three of his children with him and blew himself up. Thank God we have a President that loves our country, people, militarily and our police.

Really good film. Gripping and intense. The cast is great in this one.

A great film that somewhat follows the book "Manhunt" written by Peter Bergen. It includes a suggestion that torturing a prisoner led to the finding of Osama bin Laden (a theory believed by some in the CIA). This theory is criticized by the FBI and special agent Ali Soufan who utilized good interrogation techniques to get terrorists to reveal their secrets. The theory of waterboarding, freezing, other methods of torture used to get terrorist suspects to talk is favored by Trump who wants to use torture and maybe even kill the family members of suspected terrorist.

Basically the story of a driven CIA agent determined to exterminate bin Laden. Her character was very cold and showed little humanity. I am not a fan of war films and the torture scenes and the children crying when the compound is invaded bother me. Children are the innocent victims of war waged by adults. I thought the last scene in this movie was completely phoney.

I really wish I could rate this higher, but the torture scenes come off as propaganda. Especially since it has been shown that torture of those captured did not play a part in any of the leads that eventually led to Bin Ladin. I thought that was barely concealed propaganda BS. Outside of that, most of the rest of the movies as far as various attacks and developments was fairly accurate (but with quite a stretch of artistic license). The raid on the house was mostly accurate in the actions, but not the speed.

If you watch the movie for entertainment, cool. As a documentary? NO!

I thought this was an engaging and exciting film, but thought I'd mention, I lived next door to and became friends with an Army interrogator of captured terrorists (also a woman), and she said the inaccuracies in this drove her bonkers. So I guess it's not realistic, but for people like me who don't know nothin' about nothin' it's a good thriller