James Smoot

Not all viewers are intellectually limited or intellectually lazy. Some people appreciate the fact that the ending wasn't a Rambo style shoot 'em up with UBL meeting a spectacular end.

Apr 12 - 08:08 AM

Alex Schuettenberg

It's a drama and very good.

Apr 4 - 05:37 PM

Navneet Jain

topic was good, but a movie needs to be more than just a documentary to keep people glued to seat. There were no thrilling moments, no excitement, it was like watching a movie with known climax. HIGH VOLTAGE was really missing.

Mar 29 - 11:02 PM

Migs Rodriguez

Obviously a lot of people enjoyed this movie. I thought it was okay. Didn't need to be as long as it was. I don't see why it is so hard to understand that gung ho pro America are going to flock to a movie like this

Mar 24 - 08:00 AM

Diego Tutweiller

Yeah, it's boring as fuck. It could have been great if it were condensed into 1 hour 45 minutes, but there's probably a full hour of dead air and pointless conversations in it.

Mar 23 - 10:07 PM

joe mosely

This is a long and boring story. 2 hours and 37 minutes of mind numbing suburban mythology. Obama did not get OBL and neither did Rebecca Chastain. So who did?

Mar 23 - 07:44 PM

David Price

I'm in the military and I know a little about the community portrayed in this film. The Hurt Locker was unbelievably bad and Zero Dark Thirty isn't far behind. I'm not going to say this person or that was wearing the wrong kit or holding a weapon incorrectly because I don't care about that stuff. What I want to know is how an analyst with no field experience and the interpersonal skills of a honey badger is the sole individual who, over several years, tracks down the one lead that eventually gets us the tall guy. It's a slap in the face to the hundreds if not thousands of people who gave years of their lives to track that asshole down. I'm not looking for a documentary but I expect it to be at least based in reality. I hope Bigelow's next movie is about unicorns or dragons, that way it will be more realistic and therefore more watchable.

Mar 22 - 05:05 PM

Marco Chaudry

I took this film the same way I took Abraham Lincoln Vampire fucking Hunter XD This film to me was getting one of Friederich Nietzche's quotes across the table for the audience to remember again. In a way, I guess this film is considered philosophical if you actually think and not say AMERICA, FUCK YEAHHHH for 2hrs 37ms XD

Mar 18 - 04:25 PM

Trenton Ledford

This film was really good to me. It wasn't boring. It was very difficult script to write. The writer based the screenplay on articles he found online and added a sub plot to it to make it original. I think this film was top ten of the year. She did a great job with the directing and the cinematographer did a splendid job. It received great rating because of the editing, directing , and acting ensemble. The story might be boring if you think this movie is only about finding bin laden. The screenwriter is really good. Give the movie a chance. Watch this film with an open mind.

Mar 7 - 10:22 PM

alejandro sacajawea

OMG this was sooo bad, seriously people??? Just because its supposedly how osama was killed doesnt mean everybody needs to be all "wooo america USA USA USA!!!!" Im tired of this fake ass patriotism mob mentality.. its okay to say this movie sucked its completely fictional anyways.. no one will think your a terrorits... btw no such thing as seal team 6 LOL.. im so ashamed to be american when crap like this comes out and people rally behind it never to question why news outlets didnt allow news of Osama bin ladens death in 2002 come to american.. do some research before you believe this film is accurate..

Mar 1 - 04:10 PM

Zach Idiculla

Kind of said considering that it had all the momentum for best picture early on. but quickly fizzled out.

Feb 25 - 12:33 PM

Mark Bernstein

Easily the best movie of the year and would have been so chosen were not the New McCarthyism of political correctness dominating a Hollywood that fails to believe in the free expression it cannot live without.

Feb 25 - 07:30 AM

zeit entgeistert

the main character's monotonous performance made me long for claire danes. a good portion of her acting in homeland would have helped pump some blood into what i perceived as a rather lifeless figure. i also felt it difficult to believe that a young woman who looks like fresh out of (modelling) school would spearhead such a high-profile case. i found this whole character hard to swallow.

the last part - portraying the actual takeover - saved the movie for me but, i guess, 1 has to be male + american to be this (= 94%) enthusiastic about chastain & the movie.

Feb 21 - 11:15 AM

Daniel Ganser

Wow you draw a crowd!

Feb 20 - 04:48 PM

David Gee

I was rather disappointed. Between the opening torture scenes and the raid on bin laden, it felt like this movie went in circles.

It's more than fair to compare this to "The Hurt Locker" and I appreciate that film more after having seen this one. Two big differences: ZDT's characters never connected with me the way THL's did (which to me is the most important thing about film and TV, connecting to the characters). And from a suspense standpoint it's no contest, although to be fair ZDT is actual events. I understand it's basically a history lesson and Bigelow did the best she could, but there's no way I could watch this a second time.

Feb 19 - 11:18 PM

David C

I liked the movie. I went to see it to watch a movie..didn't care about political lefts or rights. It was not a "Die Hard" style movie and if you read anything about it before going to see it then you would have known that.

I don't understand those bashing the language. It was rated-R and every R-rated movie could reduce the amount of violence or language but it wasn't excessive. 49 F-words in a movie of 157 minutes. End of watch (which I didn't like the language in that....too much) 325 F-words! Silver Linings playbook, 75 f-words. Argo, 25 F-words.
And ZDT was much longer than any of those movies. Do a little research before you go watch a movie and you won't have these problems. You can look up just about anything you want before you go....you can see how much, language, violence, sexual content......etc.

Feb 18 - 04:33 PM

Cody Kerr

Because it's the best film of the year.

Feb 18 - 12:56 PM

Justin Downing

This movie is exceptional!, and is one of the best of 2012 thats why the good reviews are pouring in!

Feb 17 - 05:26 PM

Sam Stilman

Check this out - ZERO DARK DIRTY - haha! www.zerodarkdirty.com

Feb 7 - 05:58 PM

Esselyn Kubrick

They are bought and paid for by the New World Order militarists.

Feb 7 - 05:52 PM

Mark Oszoli

I can understand that the movie hold interest to you if you are an American, but I have to agree with others for someone outside America its kind of boring. Not to mention I could not even keep track of who is who in that movie.

Feb 4 - 01:05 PM

Cynthia Manriquez

It WAS boring.

Feb 3 - 03:27 PM

Osman Young

I watched 40 minutes of this in Cairo with an audience of Egyptians (I'm British), and as I walked out I wanted to ask the audience, "How can you sit there and watch this? " . I cant remember ever having walked out of a movie in my life! Just now looking at a review I see it was 2 hours and 37 minutes. Thank God I left when i did!

Feb 3 - 02:35 AM

Nunya Bissnis

How? Because its an amazing movie, thats how.

Feb 1 - 01:46 PM

Imy Blinky

The subject matter was the thing that made me want to see this film... ha. This 'film' can be reviewed in a single four-letter word... and it's not great.

Feb 1 - 12:30 AM

Joseph Chastain

I agree. THis film was boring and had zero facts. Jessica Chastain (No relation to me) was incredible, but the film was really flat.

Jan 30 - 12:37 PM

Cancel YourCable

It got good reviews probably because its a piece of war propaganda based on absolute fiction..zero reality what so ever.

Jan 28 - 09:53 PM

Movie 43

yes it was really boring

Jan 27 - 03:54 PM

Kilgore T Rout

From what I'm reading this is not as good as the Hurt Locker and I didn't care for that one.

If it's true that the movie has no real narrative, no character arc etc. then it's going to be bad...

I was going to go see it at the cinema but thanks to all the "thinking man's" reviews, I'll wait and rent it on dvd. 93% like it, yes, but that doesn't make it good. I thought the Hurt Locker sucked and it got great reviews too.

Jan 24 - 04:08 AM

Gareth Rg Jordan

I was expecting more from this movie. The Hurt Locker had characters that we were intrigued by, we were surrounded by suspense. The audience were sucked in to Jeremy Renner's charm and blown away by his masochistic nature. We felt for the characters and their doomed mission. Zero Dark Thirty shows the war on terror that's being fought at the desk - via CIA, intelligence, etc. The central character isn't a snip away from exploding in every scene, but trawling through information, developing sources, extracting information; all while real life events unfold. The Docudrama is based on true events, but the creative treatment of the manhunt plot may be informative but is rather drawn out and repetitive. Films are supposed to have a little more substance then just trying to show the facts objectively (If objectivity is really truthful in a story like this). You have to engage the audience and make them root for her struggle, there was no connection with Jessica Chastain. Was she was supposed to be an empty vessel the audience project themselves into? During the opening scenes of torture, we are uneasy and relate to her indifferent demeanour. However her indifference blends into an apathetic determination to do what is necessary, to get the job done.

Finally there are real life terror attacks that placed periodically through the film, as well as the weaving of terror attacks into the narrative story. This it seems is done in a bid to gain some tention, a race against time to catch OSBL before he masterminds another attack. There are problems with this. OSBL had been a figure head of Americas war on terror, Enemy No1, for some time now. To suggest that al qaeda or islamic extremism will fall like a deck of cards after OSBL is assassinated is either ignorant or seriously misjudged. He was one among many, in a movement that will not end by his death. A film with this subject matter was always going to bang the American drum and we all knew the ending. But with all the context surrounding the middle east, global terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afganistan, and the elusive figure of OSBL himself; I can't help but feel hugely underwhelmed by this short sighted, linear representation of events.

Jan 22 - 10:22 PM

Matthew Wallace

This isn't a movie you see because your expecting thrills and shooting. Zero Dark Thirty isn't a drama, a comedy, or an adventure. Zero Dark Thirty is a documentary and I saw it to know what happened, nothing more nothing less.

Jan 21 - 06:47 PM

Tom Suharik

Have to agree with Patrick. We were bored thoughout. Everything of substance we saw in trailers. Simply a ploy to capitalize on an event making money.

I think the movie was made too fast and soon. That is why Argo was better, though time details were availble and an actual storyline was able to evolve.

The only bright spot was they left Obama out of it and kept it focused on CIA- where it should have been.

Just like real world undercover ops, you can't rush reality just as you can't through together a movie of substance in a couple months.

In the end, there really was no suspense even when you knew the outcome. Argo won the Golden Globes on this simple concept- you knew the outcome and still were on the edge of your seat until the plane lifts off.

Jan 21 - 07:31 AM

Patrick Acciani

BTW Bigelow was not snubbed for Best Director. There was a very good reason she was left off the list. There was so much more potential in that movie and she blew it.

Jan 20 - 06:37 AM

Patrick Acciani

Horrible movie. 3 hours of my life I can't get back. It was just a bunch of characters I knew nothing about periodically passing through the movie saying, supposedly, important things. To bad I didn't care, because Bigelow went at it like a documentary. Hard to relate to any of the characters or feel any emotion when I feel disconnected to everyone. You know nothing about them. As much time is spent on Maya's character (Jessica Chastain), I still didn't care because, unfortunately, I kept thinking to myself, she got nominated for an Oscar, really? She was very average. As bad as The first 2 hours of the movie dragged and the scenes lingered, the last 30 minutes is spent fast forwarding through the Navy Seals. Wham bam thank you mam, it was nice NOT to get to know ya. There's no mention of any strategy, planning or preparation. It's hop in the helicopter and head right to the big climax. And then, a big dud! I was ready to feel the goose bumps, and the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I got nothing. The movie failed to let me know what dangers these guys faced. Bigelow made it look like they hit the Staples "Easy" button. Absolutely, no intensity whatsoever. Maybe she did shoot the last scenes near the end of production, because it felt hurried and sloppy like she just didn't care anymore. That was easy.

Jan 20 - 06:28 AM

Mark Marrone

Yeah it was very boring and very dragged out. They could have made this film like an hour and a half. The torture scenes took up too much time and they just talked too much and dragged out the entire thing. I was trying to stay awake during the film haha.

Jan 19 - 08:32 PM

Jason McCann

This movie is not boring because it doesn't have enough explosions or enough chase scene's like lazy thinkers would have you believe. IT IS BORING because it has no strong narrative thread. You are introduced to the main character...actually at first I didn't know if it was the guy or the girl.... torturing/learning to torture suspects. You cannot introduce you main character with no identifier except that she is torturing a guy or watching him or other people being tortured. It is AGES before there is any reason to care about this heroine. We do not CARE about Maya because she is not a sympathetic character. EVENTUALLY you are on here side in scenes 90 minutes into the film when they should have been much much earlier. The lack of any real characters goes completely haywire for the actual mission though. THEY DON'T EVEN CUT TO THE MAIN CHARACTER until its over. She has no role or even screen time in the finale which is the point of the film. Seriously, we are talking about a film where the main character is absent from the big scene. Some of it is very good and the filmmaking is impressive but the lack of a character to care about and root for through 90 minutes of torture just makes it boring as hell. Sorry. I was dying to love this. Also the plot is confusing and convoluted and the last third could have been the entire film.

Jan 19 - 04:35 PM

JOSE Cabrera

i think its overrated.

Jan 19 - 07:20 AM

Kaiser Yusuf

It is boring

Jan 17 - 12:52 PM

Claude Whiffen

What seems boring about the hunt for the most wanted man in the world? For those of you saying it's slow and boring, give me a break, just because they're not catching a terrorist or blowing something up in every seen doesn't make the movie boring. They were trying to keep the movie somewhat realistic and it took years to find Bin Laden. The movie kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time, every time you think she has a lead, it's a dead end and she has to start over, no one believed in her, and in the end she gets the job done. Great movie.

Jan 16 - 12:29 PM

Grant Welcome

Saw this Sunday, while the film stretched in places, overall I loved it and wasn't bored at all. It got increasingly better as Maya's character was shaped out and it was her passion that drove the film (imo) to the exciting finale.

Jan 15 - 11:22 PM

Guillermo Nolasco

This film was boring until they went to the compound. Im coming from a movie standpoint not a factual standpoint because after all this is a movie. Time progression was muddy, the f bomb replaced actual words, and the characters didn't engage me. Ive read all over the net that Bigglow kept people on the Edge of their seat.... that's a bunch of BS i day dreamed at certain parts of the movie until the random but yet predictable explosions woke me up. Did i mention this movie was predictable? I think that in the way the narrative was shown it had to be that long, but way a boring film with predictable sceene's and muddy plot points (with the exception of the obvious last mission). C grade

Jan 14 - 11:01 PM

Marco Chaudry

There should be a remake of "Funny People" where the cast is replaced with some of the users on this page (and I mean that as a compliment XD).

Jan 14 - 02:24 PM

Brian Watson

I saw Zero Dark Thirty this past weekend. I know there are R's & D'd and Idependants, etc out there and that we all do not agree on all topics. I think there is one topic we can agree on and that it was a very good thing that OBL was chased down with a capture or kill or kill order. Now some may not like the movie for one reason or another be it not 100% accurate or from acting standpoint etc. Please put all that aside. One this is accurate and very clear, OBL, the animal that killed many many Americans (neighbors, family, loved ones) was taken out. For whatever reason everyone did not run out into the street and be thankful for that outcome. Maybe we just wanted to put an end to it and show we are better than them. BUT what we need to do is to show thanks to the countless men and women that risked their lives and who even were killed chasing him down. We need to say thank you in a big way. Please work with my to ensure that the reviews of this movie are kept at the highest levels. This will be our way to saying thank you. Thank you to those that took on the huge responsibility and who got the job done. THANK YOU!!

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/zero_dark_thirty/

Jan 13 - 07:27 PM

Vanessa Zumwalt

Saw this 1/12/13. My opinion is: Meh....at best. I found the first 2 hrs and 17 minutes mind numbingly long and repetative. The last 20 minutes were action packed and hold my interest. I'd recommend going to a reduced price matinee if you plan on seeing it in the theater. Better yet, wait for DVD (and Netflix).

Jan 13 - 06:29 PM

Blaze Firestarter

Everyone knows by now that Bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11 and that it was an inside job.

Jan 13 - 11:01 AM

Craig Simmons

Kathryn Bigelow says she avoids moral messaging in this movie. She said "depiction is not endorsement" and "The film doesn?t have an agenda, and it doesn?t judge." Utterly amazing! A ambience movie for neocons? Ah...of course not. That would judgemental. She claims her movie doesn't judge, so we would be missing the point if we made moral judgements about the events depicted. Of course- this is merely "history" Bigelow claims...except during the fictional parts. Her keen attraction to torture's brutality was merely to give us only a sense of the "landscape." Would her answer be the same about depicting al queda's bombings? Or the echoes of the final words of the WTC victims? Or how should we view Maya's mission? From Bigelow's statements Maya's feelings should be irrelevant. She cannot be either good or evil. The same for Bin Laden. Both have to be merely props in a vacation commercial since she announced we are wrong to judge such "thorny" issues.
What Bigelow really means is: don't judge her. She wants us to pay the admission price- all sides can see this and not be offended! If we get upset then we are in error because she claims moral neutrality- no agendas remember?
Give me a misguided patriot who champions torture anyday, instead of Bigelows hideous and cowardly cop-outs. Give me a pacifist or terrorist or anyone willing to risk being right and wrong.

Jan 13 - 04:35 AM

Blaze Firestarter

Especially considering that Bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11 so obviously this movie is a worthless lie. Although the torture is probably the only accurate thing in this piece of crap film funded by the daughter of a rich psychopath.

Jan 12 - 07:16 PM

James Reed

Honestly the movie couldn't have been done any better. Same thing with Argo, a set story but done very well.

Jan 12 - 03:42 PM

Frank Tolentino

It bores people who get reality from Michael Bay, Stallone and Swartznegger movies

Jan 11 - 03:54 PM

Marc Vitagliano

Rather large Let down.
1. They underplayed the polio vaccination ruse.
2. Other than dating some of the Acts within the film.. there no sense of time progression.
3. Much of this movie seemed like it was over edited, giving waaay more time to the torture scenes and then at the end... the SEAL team acted like they were National Guardsmen( no offense to the Nat. Guard.. ;) ).
4. No Epilogue, or final tie off.. like the dumping of the body in the ocean..ect..ect..

This wasn't really well don't.. In my opinion.

Jan 11 - 01:11 PM

Matt diesel

OKay, So I watched this movie after originally seeing it as a propaganda film for anti terrorism. I didn't originally give it a chance, It's stance seemed to be pro torture. But, I watched it twice and I've found it to be a masterpiece of multiculturalism. If you want no better example of bipartisanism watch this film and see how they follow bin laden's raid with massive info destruction. They play the CIA card perfectly, in the fact that they only show you what would be beneficial to the USA and destroy any detrimental information regarding the raid. The movie that was once a sacrament to my nation has become an awakening call to the naive about our motives in the so called "war"

Jan 11 - 01:39 AM

Sammy Bommaraju

i saw the movie and although the last 45 minutes are awesome, the first 2 hours are really boring and do a poor job explaining how exactly the CIA found the bin laden compound.

Jan 9 - 09:41 PM

Audrey Haydel

movie was freakin boring....#jussayin

Jan 9 - 03:12 PM

William Costigan

Ok I'm sorry for thinking this movie would be boring. I just saw it and it was perfect. Ignore what I said on my thread. Everyone should see this movie.

Jan 5 - 09:03 PM

Anthony Felix

Weird how on the IMDB website, the movie has a 7/10 rating, but most of the audiences voted 1/10's for torture. Why is that? I'm not defending the movie or anything, but I don't see how it promotes torture.

Jan 1 - 10:24 PM

Bryce Weir

I personally will not sit through this because if it follows in the same footsteps of that 9/11 movie (the one about the firemen that go into the twin towers), then all this movie will do is try to make big ol' America look like the good guys killing some old man in the middle of the desert that somehow coordinated a attack on the World's most powerful nation. I've seen too many documentaries and talked with too many physicists who say what happened on that day was more than some planes crashing into some towers. Looked more like a controlled demolition to me and a whole lot of people...

Dec 29 - 12:53 PM

Sue Dudek

Three of us saw it in Los Angeles yesterday. The film was packed. There were police everywhere "just in case" they said. The movie reads like a documentary. The last thirty minutes were the best. At the end only a few people clapped. We were all disappointed

Dec 20 - 07:06 AM

Ryan Widger

Really, it comes down to Boal, the crew, and the cast...i think it would be hard to mess this one up.

Dec 16 - 07:51 PM

Doug Spicer

I do. No judging by me until I see it. Historically many movies get great reviews by conceited and self important critics, but as far the public is concerned the movie sucks and the public votes with its wallet. The same goes for movies the critics pan.

Dec 16 - 06:00 AM

Grant Welcome

for myself, i won't be judging this until i see it

Dec 15 - 12:06 PM

Matt McCulla

Don't judge a film you haven't seen

Dec 14 - 02:06 PM

Valdred Dethstorm

Yeah, that's what I'm asking myself.
The Hurt Locker was a boring turd and it won almost everything anyway. But hey, it was kind of predictable that this movie about "Bin Laden dies, fuck yeah America" was going to get showered in praises and awards.

Dec 14 - 01:47 PM

Rich Aurillia

Sad thing is, this film will probably be better than The Hurt Locker and not win best pic based on here winning a few years ago with similar material.

Dec 12 - 01:24 PM

Marc Hochman

Maybe all 28 reviews (and counting) are TOTALLY wrong.

Dec 11 - 05:12 PM

Andrew Milito

It's called having interests in certain subjects

Dec 11 - 06:07 AM

Justen Noll

Seems kinda boring? WHAT?! That seems like a iffy accusation.

Dec 10 - 05:41 PM

Matthew Strehlow

Yea, dramas never get good reviews right?

Dec 10 - 11:08 AM

Vinny Andreotti

To quote Bob Chipman:

"You ever actually read the book 'The Godfather' was based on? It's not all that good, but you give that to Francis Ford Coppola and he makes it into one of the greatest films of all time. 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' is regarded as one of the most important books of the modern age. They made it into a movie with Tom Hanks and it SUCKED. I've seen shitty movies based on the live of Christ [The Passion}. I've seen excellent movies based on funny books about a rich guy who dresses up as a rodent and beats up bank robbers because he misses his mommy [The Dark Knight]."

Filmmaking rule #1: You Can Make A Good Movie Out Of Anything

Dec 8 - 03:08 PM

James Phoenix

Yeah I see where you're coming from. It's an interesting subject, but by the amount of praise it's getting from critics, it's probably two and half hours of boring bullshit and then twenty minutes of action.

Dec 8 - 02:50 PM

Travis W

I think it will be good nearly the same way the Hurt Locker and Argo were good.

Dec 8 - 07:54 AM

Eric Mccoy

to Joe McAdam, they will believe this just like you'll believed 2016 Obama's America, guess were even now lmao...

Dec 8 - 07:44 AM

Joe McAdam

The problem with this piece of State Department-sponsored propaganda is that the less enlightened viewers will believe it's true. They really will believe that the most wanted man in the world was captured, killed and buried at sea, and without a shred of recorded proof. I trust there's plenty of reference in the film to the Bin Laden family's close ties with the Bush family.

Dec 7 - 06:36 AM

Bob Picture

Absolutely magnificent filmmaking. 2 hrs and 40 mins and never looked at my watch once. The direction, script, editing and performances are flawless. Terrific original music as well stunning cinematography.
"The Hurt Locker" was no fluke ... Bigelow is the real deal.

Dec 6 - 08:43 PM

David Tanny

I'm sure your dreaded "military talk", as you put it, will be handled in a suspenseful and engaging manner. And it will be build-up to the compound raid. I'm sure the movie will be well done, based on advance reviews and the pedigree of it's filmmakers and cast.

Dec 6 - 05:23 PM

Liam Cochran

Doesn't sound boring in the slightest...

Dec 6 - 03:11 PM