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Rightly attracting major awards attention, The Hurt Locker is a supreme, tense and gripping piece of drama. And it grabs your attention from the stunning opening scene, which perfectly gets across the dangers faced by the specialist bomb disposal squad that we spend the rest of the film following.
Chief among them is Jeremy Renner’s Sergeant William James, who is the focal point for much of The Hurt Locker. The film spends some time digging into his head and why he does what he does, and his approach doesn’t always leave him eye-to-eye with the rest of his squad. Renner, in surely a star-making performance, delivers a rounded, three-dimensional portrayal of a man you could easily write off as a maverick, and the film is significantly enriched as a result.
But then with director Kathryn Bigelow behind the camera delivering her best film to date, The Hurt Locker excels still further. Her gritty, haunting visuals look superb in high definition too, evoking the down-to-earth shooting style Bigelow employs, and making the most of the assorted set-pieces she puts on film. It’s the sound that really gets you too, cleverly eating up the full breadth of a good surround-sound set-up, and carefully teasing you more and more into the film.
Not that you’re likely to need much persuading. The Hurt Locker is a terrific war movie, and a very human one. It’s also packaged on a quality Blu-ray that matches up strong presentation with interesting extra feature. It comes very highly recommended. --Jon Foster
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Based on the personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal (who adapted his experiences with a bomb squad into a fact-based, yet fictional story), director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War-set action thriller THE HURT LOCKER presents the conflict in the Middle East from the perspective of those who witnessed the fighting firsthand -- the soldiers. As an elite Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team tactfully navigates the streets of present-day Iraq, they face the constant threat of death from incoming bombs and sharp-shooting snipers. In Baghdad, roadside bombs are a common danger. The Army is working to make the city a safer place for Americans and Iraqis, so when it comes to dismantling IEDs (improvised explosive devices) the Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) crew is always on their game. But protecting the public isn't easy when there's no margin of error, and every second spend dismantling a bomb is another second spent flirting with death. Now, as three fearless bomb technicians take on the most dangerous job in Baghdad, it's only a matter of time before one of them gets sent to 'the hurt locker'. Jeremy Renner, Guy Pearce, and Ralph Finnes star.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Hurt Locker,
By Jim Jim "Jim" (Lancs) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hurt Locker [DVD] (DVD)
Its very hard to disagree with a lot of the comment made in some of the less than complimentary reviews. The characters arent particularly likeable, the plot doesnt move on particularly well. However the film is a series of brilliant set piece scenes, each one had me gripped, each one brilliantly put together. Their brilliance alone save the film and make it very watchable
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
LITTLE MORE THAN A GLORIFIED PROPAGANDA B-MOVIE,
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This review is from: The Hurt Locker [DVD] (DVD)
Usually success is a combination of talent, hard work and luck. Then again, a movie like this gets the Best Picture Oscar and one can only wonder: did the members of the Academy vote FOR this movie or against James Cameron? Sure, his arrogance did not make things easy; then again, one should not underestimate envy and spite as human motivation.Inaccuracies and obvious mistakes run rampant; the Saving Private Ryan -wannabe camera shakes you into nausea; the plot line is abandoned in the sand again and again and (what is worse) there is absolutely nothing waiting at the end. No catharsis, no message, no moral, no closure. Nothing. Platoon defined the Vietnam war not only with its realism and its ability to paint all the shades of moral ambiguity but also because because it had the guts to send a clear political message. In dire contrast, THE HURT LOCKER offers only a deafening silence on all these aspects. The movie presents this war, with some of the sacrifices and atrocities it entails, as inevitable and expected. Keep enlisting, keep fighting and keep dying for the corporations and the banks - but don't you dare speak your opinion on the matter. Its message is a cowardly "don't ask - and we are not going to tell you why either". Because self-censorship is the worse kind of censorship, this is Hollywood at its worse. A spineless pseudo-documentary masquerading as an art movie. A cowardly film trying to capitalize on the stories of brave men thrown into unwinnable war. A film made by errand boys, sent by grocery clerks, to make sure the bill of blood is being paid in full. Again and again. Pass. With extreme prejudice.
19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
surprisingly generic hollywood war film,
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This review is from: The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Considering the hype I expected this to at least be a decent war film, instead it was just another typical hollywood war film with nothing new to say.It has the usual irritating US superiority complex, there is even a scene where the US bomb disposal team of 3 men takes out a group of insurgents in the desert, saving the day and a few Brit special forces/pmc's to boot. Of course the Brits had managed to survive fine up until this point, as soon as they encounter the US troops they fall apart, stand up in the open to snipe and getting killed. Stupid Brits. Can you really desert a military base to go to a whore house and return with not a word said? Sorry but when I heard the hype for this film and then it winning the 'Best Picture Oscar' I kind of expected some realism in this one. One of the many, many problems with this film is that it is repetitive and boring, its about someone crazy, unlikable twonk who disarms bombs, one after another and yes we have to sit through them, each one more tedious than the last. The first one has some tension but by the time it comes to the Iraqi suicide bomber all tension has been exhausted. The scene were they could 'sense' insurgents had remote detonated a bomb was hilarious... which to everyone else was a suicide bomb detonation with no reason for it to be anything other than that. They just sensed it and in true hollywood fashion head off on their own little 3 man team to take down those terrorists, they also seem to know exactly where they are too... maybe they have had secret psychic military training? By the time I got to the entirely predictable scene of a military doctor, in his one and only trip out of the base getting blown up I couldn't take any more silliness, this is emotional manipulation on the level of the worst Eastenders episodes. If you had high expectations I suggest you lower them considerably.
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