By Alan Hustak on January 14, 2013
Ignore the controversy over whether the Americans used torture in their hunt for Osama Bin Laden, Zero Dark 30 is a boots- on- the- ground suspense thriller about the raid on his compound in Abbottabad which left Bin Laden and three others dead. The movie is a draining, morally complex exercise that owes it success to director Kathryn Ann Bigelow and to Jessica Chastain, in the role of Maya, the CIA operative whose intuition about the Al Qaeda leader is ignored by her superiors, including the head of the CIA, (James Gandolfini) precisely because she is woman.
