Zero Dark Thirty - Reviews

It’s a film about revenge and its immense costs, different from a common vigilante story because of the target, not the arc.

Gripping throughout, with an impressive central performance, this is like a Dogme 95 redo of a Chuck Norris film — by heroic effort, the good guys find and kill a bad guy.

It is well made, with a relentless, dour drumbeat of tension and a great final sequence...

...director Kathryn Bigelow and two-time screenwriter Mark Boal eye the line where suspense resides and push straight through to stress, to agitation.

Kathryn Bigelow’s rapid response to the death of Osama Bin Laden is a taut and morally ambiguous procedural for the ages.

...fungerer perfekt som moralsk tvivlsom drama-dokumentar, og det er en medrivende oplevelse, når man sidder i biografen...

På ett större plan är detta dock en sammanfattning av den samling dåd, konflikter, incidenter och krig som populärt kommit att kallas Kriget mot terrorn.

Maya spilles af Jessica Chastain (...) Her spiller hun fremragende, intenst og inciterende sin smukke, men frigide og rigide spionchef til en sikker Oscar-nominering.

Ska vi glädjas åt att världens mäktigaste nation just verkställde en likvideringsorder?"