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This movie did nothing for me. I didn't dislike it, but only because it inspired no strong feelings in me whatsoever. I don't think there was a single great scene. The dialogue, the characters and their interactions, the presentation of everything was just so incredibly flat and perfunctory. "This happened, then this happened, then a couple years later this happened." There was no escalation, no momentum, nothing and no one to invest in. Things picked up a little bit in the last half hour by virtue of the fact that a raid is sort of inherently exciting, but otherwise I thought there was no tension or drama the whole way through. Maya was also a completely boring, one-dimensional protagonist we've seen a million times before.
The biggest disappointment of the year by some margin, particularly given the remarkable praise it's received from nearly all critics and the fact that I loved The Hurt Locker.
6/10.
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