In reply to Dauphin:
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> ZD30 a much more engaging film, left the cinema feeling thoroughly depressed though. 30 or so minutes of waterboarding and torture at the start doesn't exactly leave you punching the air for the goodies when the bad man in the skirt and beard gets slotted.
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There's been a lot of comment about the fact that torture was portrayed in the film as being integral to tracking down Bin Laden, when in fact a number of officials have indicated that this wasn't the case at all. The CIA also seems to have heavily influenced the direction & content of the film with several advisors working with the film makers, so many seem to see it as a propaganda film for them, it certainly seems heavily politicised in this context.
It was also suggest that this was the reason it didn’t win any Oscars, despite being a ‘better’ film than Argo, which is ironic as that’s also a film about the CIA and also distorts the true.
I haven't seen either yet, so can comment, but thought the media comment was interesting.