Review – Zero Dark Thirty

This obvious, desperate attempt to reproduce the success of The Hurt Locker falls well short of the mark. Gone is the clever tension of bomb diffusing, replaced by standard espionage thriller fare. Almost all the “surprise” bombings in this picture are so ham-handedly telegraphed that they become “throw the switch and get on with it” ordeals. Further, I frequently found myself distracted by little nagging details. For example, the infamous torture sequences struck me as more pointless than objectionable. Why demand email addresses that even a witless teenager could have set up anonymously, made untraceable and abandoned at the first hint of compromise? Is this really how they tracked down Osama Bin Laden? See if desperate