Why Is the IMDB Rating A 7.4 For This Movie?

The film garnered some controversy and has its share of detractors on IMDb, hence the rating. It did not win because the Academy had already handed out the crown jewels for Ms. Bigelow's previous film, 'The Hurt Locker'. So now you know.

For what it's worth, neither an Oscar win nor a favourable rating on IMDb is particularly worth its weight in peach pits, so there's little reason for upset.

All the nominees cannot win. Argo was certainly not crappy. Argo was talking about the CIA years, years ago. They did not have advanced technology like they did during Zero Dark Thirty. That's like some 20, 30 years difference? So how is it fair that we compare the two? Agents from the Argo age had to think more because of limited resources in technology. Agents in Zero Dark Thirty had technology at their feet and had more help and it made the job easier. Which do you think would fare better with people? With the kind of superior resources they had during 9/11 and post, one would think killing Bin Laden was easy, because the CIA was and is loaded with billions in funding and far more professional and tactical than the Al-Qaeda. But it did take them ten years to kill the guy. Argo deserved its win. It was about Americans trapped in hostile territory with one superhero CIA Agent to get them out. And the other one talks about killing a terrorist, who we already know has backing in billions for funds and a lot of sidekicks to execute operations. You would relate more to Argo than ZDT. ZDT is pretentious and full of itself. First we need to find out, where the actual Intel came from about BL's whereabouts. Argo was more heartfelt and tight with writing.

ZDT has the ratings it deserves.

It's lucky to have a 7.4.

Rating is spot on.
I really like this movie, but to deserve a higher rating, it should have made less mistakes that make more... sophisticated people cringe and wonder why US movies always *beep* on foreign cultures by portraying them 99% wrong.

Hell, Maya couldn't even pronounce Peshawar right. I mean really? A highly skilled and intelligent CIA specialist who did nothing else for 10 years as working with middle-east related stuff but...Peshawar is too tough to pronounce?

The Bar scene in "Kuwait"... with girls and alcohol? Yeahhh.... no!

Or why was the informant speaking ARABIC to Pakistani people?
Pakistani speak Urdu (official), certainly not Arabic.

This list is long, check the goofs or google it, tons of, in my opinion, disrespectful errors in this movie that just again portrays the American ignorance and how they don't give a *beep* about anything non-American or at least non-Western.

I still like this movie.
Yet these things really put the rating down a lot.

I know, huh? 7.4 is horrendous for a movie like this. Should've been a 5 instead. And that's being generous.

Now Argo was far from perfect, but at least it had me in suspense. Each scene led to the next. This "film" (I'd call it a docudrama really) made me dizzy and tired instead.