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Jessica mas movies12/10/2023 I want them to do to me what drama can do. I wish I had gone to see a film built around his character and his performance. His depiction of his work as just another job – he could be playing a bus driver with the same amount and degree of expressiveness – is provocative. Dan humiliates, beats, and water boards suspects, and then feeds them delicious meals of hummus and olives when they deliver. Jason Clarke is very strong and charismatic as Dan, a CIA interrogator. All I kept thinking was, "Jessica Chastain is being praised for *this* performance? Why?" The dullness of her performance, and the underwritten character, made it almost impossible for me to lose myself in the story, such as it was. I didn't care about this character at all. We know nothing about her, except that she was recruited to the CIA while in high school – we are never told what would draw the CIA to a high school student. CIA agent Maya, played by Jessica Chastain, is the closest the film has to a main character. Characters are given no backstory and no character arch. "Zero" makes no attempt to draw the viewer in with any human sentiment. There are also scenes in offices where characters stare intently at computer screens or interrogation videos, and characters yell at each other and use obscenities, as their frustrating hunt for Osama bin Laden wears them down. Scenes consist of depictions of beating and water boarding of detainees in order to gather information, agents stalking a suspect in Pakistan's crowded, chaotic bazaars, terrorist bombings, assassinations and assassination attempts. Episodic scenes occur in a choppy manner, one after the other. That sequence is so professionally shot it could be actual documentary footage. Its strongest feature is its dramatization of the Navy Seal Team 6 operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed bin Laden. Not worth a second of your time."Zero Dark Thirty" is a grim, clinical depiction of the CIA search for Osama bin Laden. It's a drama for people who don't like dramas, a comedy for people who don't like comedies, and a romance for people who don't like romance. I don't need it, and I encourage everyone to stray far away from this badly written, far-fetched, soap cushion of a love story that sincerely wants to be literally everything that it's not. Then of course your Ashton Kutcher and your Jessica Biel who insist upon us that "Yes look, we're still famous! We promise!" Well I don't need it. The whole thing is a jumbled mess of popular actresses of today, and a few familiar faces that we all know. Looking for a fun holiday film to put a spring in your step, and a sparkle in your smile? Then spend your ten bucks elsewhere, because this movie is not worth the dough. I am convinced that his last and final wish (let's be honest, he's not exactly in his twenties) is to meet as many famous people as he can and what does that leave the helpless moviegoers with? The atrocities that were (and still are) Valentine's Day and New Years Eve. Garry Marshall: Probably the single most desperate man in America. But then I saw who was directing this prick of a film. I can't believe someone made the same mistakes that were made just a year or two ago! When I first saw the poster, I thought "Is this a parody?". You know what that's called on the set of a good movie? Bad casting. This film is just an excuse to slap a couple of famous face in front of the same camera, within the same period of time. During a viewing of this excruciatingly painful melo-dramedy, one will find absolutely no artistic value, underlying message, or actual creative backbone. There was absolutely NO reason to make this movie. What? It's not a sequel to Valentine's Day? Let's be honest here.
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