Bogart's face actually isn't seen until the movie is half over (a fact that reportedly distressed studio head Jack Warner as he envisioned box office losses), but the picture never loses its edge, with Vincent's plight (his run - ins with various suspicious characters never
hurt for suspense), Bacall's anchoring performance, and the San Francisco location shooting overcoming a rather slender mystery.
Though this ridiculously in - depth account of the CIA's search
for the al - Qaeda leader could have been an extremely dull affair in someone else's hands, director Kathryn Bigelow injects the film with the same level of intensity and
suspense that made «The
Hurt Locker» so riveting.