I dont know what part, if any, of the truth this documentary shows, but it it interesting to see the human side of the fbi and cia agents. Some seem to live with a burden I wouldnt want to share. They make fascinating and excentric characters. Surprisingly, the actual raid and the murder of Bin Laden are never shown in anyway or form. It is problematic that the violence and moral pitfalls of the hunt stay very abstract, except for a few comments on black holes and torture.

I had read/heard many of the stories talked about in this documentary over the years but it was very nice to see them all put together in one form. It gives great insight into what truly goes on behind the scenes in the intelligence community that most people are not privy to.Anyone using the mindset of comparing this to Zero Dark Thirty are going about things the incorrect way. Zero Dark was a glamorized Hollywood story that actually was a project about the failure to capture UBL until ST6 accomplished their mission. Once that mission was completed, the script for Zero Dark changed.This documentary starts before anyone in the intelligence community even knew Al-Q existed and how their rise to prominence was dealt with along the way.Manhunt should give those that watch it a great understanding of how years upon years of hard work can and does pay off. While not glamorous, the most important people in the battle against those who commit evil are the ones you know nothing about.

I went into the theatre expecting this to be a more sober, objective and documentary- styled version of the events depicted in Zero Dark Thirty, but I was very much surprised by what I ended up seeing. The interview objects, or characters if you will, with very few exceptions all struck me as having frighteningly little ability to question the events they were at the centre of on any moral level. It's possible that this is of the director's doing, but regardless I left the theatre with the feeling that the film was mostly about people defending their reputation as good workers among their superiors and co- workers after an office quarrel, and not even remotely about the larger moral questions of what the military and intelligence bureaus are doing to human beings in other countries. I was extremely disappointed. To me this film appears pointless. And in the light of how important and complex the events it circles around are, crushingly so. I also left the theatre with an ominous feeling of that if the level of intelligence displayed in this film is representative for the people in charge of some of the most powerful organisations on earth, then we're all in trouble.

I don't know how someone can make a movie about as important a subject as the appearance of, hunt for, finding of, and execution of Osama bin Laden -- a subject for adult audience -- and then ruin it by presenting it as if it were a television commercial designed to sell pimple cream to thirteen-year olds, but they've managed to do it.Please don't consider this a full review. I was only able to sit through the first quarter hour or so before giving up on it. What the viewer sees are instantaneous cuts of photos of bin Laden, a short video clip, two talking heads from the CIA, a white board on which a disembodied hand scribbles some unidentifiable names. Sometimes there is a quivering shot of the white board with NOTHING ON IT. It was a week before I was able to sit up in bed and take solids again.The camera wobbles as if held by a drunk. The editor seems to have snorted a few lines and the director was on mushrooms. Someone ought to make a real movie about this historical event.Advisory: Dangerous to your mental health if you're not barely post-pubescent. Want to see a fine movie about the taking of Ben Laden? Try Katherine Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty."