The Mauritanian (dir. Kevin Macdonald).

The judicial legal docudrama never comes together apart from a standout performance by Tahar Rahim as Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who was held without charges for over fourteen years, based on his best-selling memoir Guantanamo Diary written while he was imprisoned. We just never get a sense of the real-life components of terror and bureaucracy beyond dramatizing the real-life players fight against injustice.