This is what happens when you encourage bad effort. The team of Bigelow and Boal was showered with praise for the horrible "The Hurt Locker." Now the inept team is back with an effort that's equally bad if not worse. Told in a documentary style, this is basically the story of investigative journalism, which can be riveting if done right, as in "All the President's Men." Boal's script, however, is so excruciatingly boring that this one is painful to sit through. Bigelow does not help matters with her drab direction. The film is nothing more than a series of meetings, interviews, and torture scenes. Even the finale, where the force makes its way through Bin Laden's compound, fails to be compelling.
Review of Zero Dark Thirty
