Top US senators slam content of bin Laden movie

Three top US senators, including former presidential candidate John McCain, have slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt movie for suggesting that torture helped find the al-Qaida chief.

In a letter to Sony Pictures head Michael Lynton, Democratic senators Diane Feinstein, Carl Levin and Republican McCain took issue with Zero Dark Thirty, the new film by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow.

"The film graphically depicts CIA officers repeatedly torturing detainees and then credits these detainees with providing critical lead information on the courier that led to" bin Laden, they wrote.