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Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Written by Mark Boal ( The Hurt Locker ) Music by Alexandre Desplat Premise:   A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011. My thoughts on the movie: Due to the recent events  the movies being shown on TV are similar  to those events that I was able to watch this film. I have been wanting to see this since this was initially released because it has a powerhouse cast and according to press releases, this movie was based on first-hand accounts.  That meant that there was little room for fiction.  Of course, some of the names had to be fictionalized and for cinematic effect, some scenes were exaggerated a bit. Sorry to spoil this for some of you, but there was a part in the movie that actually happened in real life, that could have been avoided.  It was when the Jo...

This is Courtney Chase.  She played Joanne, the central character's only daughter in this movie.   She was so cute and witty in this film For me, even if the actors played their roles well, the story was, for lack of a better term,  was so -so.   Imagine, Joanne's dad, Leonardo, owed some bad people  money.  How does he intend to pay them? To win from gambling and when that did not work, he joined the male escort service. Sigh. I'm still kinder than that imdb reviewer, because even if I think it's so-so, it's not bad as how that reviewer described the film. Good premise, great actors, but...