She's no Carrie Mathieson on Homeland thats for sure

Yes, I think she did a great job. I have seen her in other movies such as "Mama" and she did a great job in that also.

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A bit more but nothing overly remarkable.

Jessica Chastain is a fine actress who did a decent job here no more, no less.

I felt the same way about Jennifer Lawrence too. Jennifer and Jessica have quickly become two of my favorite actresses. Jennifer did a good job in Silver Linings Playbook and Jessica did a good job in Zero Dark Thirty, but neither of their performances were Oscar worthy.

I could not stand her, worse part of the movie. Felt like a very fake and forced portrayal and just going for a "girl power" theme. She is just like those overly "serious" "no nonsense" cliched female characters in CSI shows, Bones, Castle, etc. Corny, in reality the woman she is portraying to not play anywhere near as big of a role of finding Bin Laden nor did she act anything like that.

I just saw ZDT tonight for the first time on Starz. Jessica was terrific. I loved the passion she poured into this film.

I agree with the OP on this one. Jessica Chastain is a good actress but her role in ZDT wasn't mind blowing. In fact, nothing about the film was particularly spectacular, though that's a whole other thread..Anyway, personally I think that most of the hype surrounding Chastain's performance in this film came from the fact that she's one of Hollywood's "It" girls at the moment.

Nope. Find nothing particularly remarkable about her underwritten, relatively one-note performance here. And that one note is more annoying than anything else.
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her yelling seemed to cover for the fact she didn't really know what she was talking about, what,
exactly
, to put emphasis on. she'd yell an entire paragraph! this didn't make her character seem 'intense'. it made her seem like a loon.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Sure she cried a couple of times, but that doesn't make it a great performance
I agree. Her strength was not the "breaking down" moments.
If she was trying to portray an annoying person who thought she was smarter than everybody, she did well
Exactly. That is what she was trying to do. Add in borderline fanatical dogmatism and perseverence. And imho she did it beyond well. So well that she was my win for the year!
but there's still nothing Oscar worthy about that, at least to me
Fair enough. We all have different opinions, that's what I like about messagre boards Personally I thought her nom for The Help was a bit of a joke. Some of my friends loved that one and, like you, disliked her in ZD30

No, all she did was yell at everybody and recite redundant and boring dialogue. Sure she cried a couple of times, but that doesn't make it a great performance. If she was trying to portray an annoying person who thought she was smarter than everybody, she did well, but there's still nothing Oscar worthy about that, at least to me.

laughed at some of the ways she delivered the lines. i can't believe anybody cared about that performance. it was woeful. ruined the movie for me. not a ounce of depth to the role though. what a crap movie.

Watch The Help. Fake, mannered, completely took me out of the immersion each scene etc.

Wow, I'd hate to see her worst performance then!

best performance of her career so far (altough I loved her in Doubt too) and best English speaking perf of 2012 IMHO. Partly BECAUSE she was annyoing/onetrack/distant/bratty etc. The person her character was mainly based upon was supposedly was quite a bit like that too

Was Jessica Chastain really that spectacular?
No. Not at all. To be honest, I found her annoying the entire movie.

Which did you like best?

Jessica Chastain gave one of the top ten performances by a woman that I saw in 2012. Was it the best? No but not undeserving of the praise.

Only earlier thing I saw her in was 'The Help.' She was good but Octavia Spencer stole the show.

Not at all. She was better in earlier stuff.

Amour
was simply fantastic. Riva's performance is just extraordinary. I wish she received the attention she so rightly deserves.
The Impossible
All I have to say is that the real impossible is not crying
during
The Impossible. Watts gives a stellar performance though. At times it's very hard to watch.