This is the one everyone has been talking about. Frankly, it's not great.Maya (Jessica Chastain) is a young up-and-comer at the CIA, assigned to the Pakistani embassy after 9/11. She gets a lead on the head courier for Osama Bin Laden and follows it obsessively, despite serious opposition from her superiors, eventually arriving at the compound in Abbottabad. The rest, as they say, is history.
Honestly, this movie was a slog. I don't know if Jessica Chastain should get Best Actress for this, since she basically just played a total bitch. If she gets it, it'll be because everyone wished they could have given her and Octavia Spencer both the Best Supporting Actress statue for The Help. Kathryn Bigelow didn't get a nomination for Best Director this time but I think this might be a lock for Best Original Screenplay.
This had a ton of recognizable people in it, but none of them got more than about 10 minutes of screentime. It was like everybody wanted to be able to put "worked with Kathryn Bigelow" on their resumes.
This is pure Oscar bait, not a movie to own.
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