Zero Dark Thirty (Marzo 19 USA)

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Blu-ray review
Movie 5.0
Video 5.0
Audio 5.0
Extras 2.0
Overall 4.0

Zero Dark Thirty is quite the remarkable movie in any number of ways. It's highly controversial but grounds itself in an almost frighteningly real authenticity that must be seen to be believed. The film's ability to captivate its audience and maintain a steady rhythm even with an extended runtime and a foreknowledge of even some of the secondary story items is truly remarkable. Bigelow's craftsmanship is so good it seems almost beyond the limits of the medium; she captures an essence, an authenticity, an attention to detail, a grittiness, a reality that's incredibly difficult to achieve in film, and she does so by telling a story everybody knows but few really know and even fewer truly understand. The film is a technical masterpiece and very well performed to boot. It oozes a realism that's rare in cinema, and with that realism comes understandably difficult themes that have generated controversy but that are absolutely necessary to the contextual foundation of the story and critical in recreating as authentic a history as possible. This is a brilliant film in every regard that, no matter one's stance on the many arguments around it, is well worth the price of admission, and then some. Sony's Blu-ray release of Zero Dark Thirty features brilliant video and one of the top soundtracks the format has ever seen. The absence of a deeper supplemental section leaves this a prime candidate for reissue later down the road. Nevertheless, this is one of the must-see films being released to Blu-ray this year and it earns my highest recommendation.