Under the Radar DVD of the Week: 'SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden'
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden”
Big blockbuster movies often seem to spawn lesser knockoffs in their wake. Such is the case with the pithy post-9/11 thriller “Zero Dark Thirty,” which towers over a similar version of the same story told in “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden” (due out on DVD this week).
Covering essentially the same ground as Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s multi-layered, journalist depiction of the decade-long manhunt for the infamous 9/11 architect, “SEAL Team Six” is instead a more literal and blander stab at the complex story. It was aired in late 2012 on the National Geographic Channel in an apparent effort to steal some of the thunder of Bigelow and Boal’s film.
For the most part, it follows a similar timeline, depicting the long, arduous process of hunting down bin Laden, the ultimate location of a suspicious compound in the Pakistani suburb of Abbottabad and the internal intelligence debate over whether bin Laden was actually inside or not.
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