Chastain conveys an arc, as Maya goes from flinching in a corner at her first interrogation to dodging bullets when she becomes an assassination target, but moments of character - an analyst (Jennifer Ehle) hoping It’s as pared-down and unjudgmental as any objective documentary, even when Maya’s senior colleague (Jason Clarke) is waterboarding a detainee.
Chastain’s haunted, intense presence makes a human space in a movie populated by unnamed individuals whose backstories have not been declassified. He’s not cleared for any information she might give, even if she were so inclined.Ī more conventional movie would have given its lead actress an Oscar clip speech here - about a loved one lost in the struggle, or a commitment to country and cause - but director Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal remain as tight-lipped as any spook. When he probes deeper, trying to get a handle on why this lonely, debilitating campaign is so important to her, Maya shuts him down. The aide asks her how long she has worked for the Agency, and learns that practically her entire 12-year career has been devoted to this single target. Jessica Chastain’s CIA agent has a face-to-face with a White House aide (James Gandolfini) she needs on side in order to get her inferences about the location of Osama bin Laden acted upon. The major challenge in telling this particular ripped-from-the-headlines story is underlined by a sequence late in the film.
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