It felt like a documentary no one had bothered to edit. Maybe others will have a different reaction. My unsophisticated view is that it's always the script that makes the movie. The script determines what the audience sees, and just as important, what the audience doesn't see (all the boring and/or esoteric bits that don't advance the narrative). Most actors in multi-million dollar productions aren't just good enough, they're excellent. It's just that this script gives them very little to work with. ZDT is obviously not the only overhyped movie with a lousy script, but it's kind of disappointing, given that I was hoping to see a movie that wasn't a clone of some dry-as-dust PBS documentary.
ZDT disappointed me because I was unaware that it came from the CIA perspective of the raid. All the whining from the commie libs should have provided a hint to me but I guess I didn’t pick up on it. I was hoping it was a movie about the Navy SEALS getting Skippy bin Laden. When the book “No Easy Day” came out, I heard that Speilberg was talking about getting the movie rights. I hope he does get the rights and goes on to make a movie from the perspective of the Navy SEALS.
Most commercial (popular) movies are produced off of storyboards (cartoons) that are very loosely derived from the script and most of those movies resemble cartoons.