Zero Dark Thirty (15)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Joel Edgerton, Mark Duplass, James Gandolfini, Édgar Ramírez, Chris Pratt, Jennifer Ehle
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Running time: 2h 37m
The hunt for Osama bin Laden preoccupied the world and two American presidential administrations for more than a decade. But in the end, it took a small, brilliant team of CIA operatives to track him down.
Every aspect of their mission was shrouded in secrecy. Though some of the details have since been made public, many of the most significant parts of the intelligence operation-including the central role played by that team-are brought to the screen for the first time in a gripping new film by the Oscar-winning creative duo of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal.
Their controversial account of bin Laden's pursuit and capture, vivid yet faithful to the facts, takes the viewer inside the hubs of power and to the front lines of this historic mission, culminating in the special operations assault on a mysterious, suburban Pakistani compound.
"Telling a nearly three-hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually challenging films of the year." Katey Rich, The Guardian
