A well-acted, intensely shot, action filled war epic, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is thus far the best of the recent dramatizations of the Iraq War. A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but "The Hurt Locker" opens with a statement presented as fact: "War is a drug." Not for everyone, of course. Most combat troops want to get it over with and go home.
As taut and tense as a trip-wire, The Hurt Locker / is a go-for-broke, hang on for dear life, action thrill ride. The Hurt Locker movie reviews & Metacritic score: When a new sergeant, James (Jeremy Renner), takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn (. How weird and ironic, then, that the nearest thing we have to Wayne is also the best and most insightful anti-war film about Iraq: Kathryn Bigelow's blazingly powerful action movie The Hurt Locker.
The result is an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground.. The Hurt Locker might be the first Iraq-set film to. "The Hurt Locker" slips up a bit, too, but to my surprise, I was able to forgive those missteps almost completely, because the movie on the whole is the most compelling war movie in many years, and just a great movie, period: terrifically acted, brilliantly conceived and directed, a work of true cinematic art. The Hurt Locker movie reviews & Metacritic score: When a new sergeant, James (Jeremy Renner), takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn (. With Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. The film follows an Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by insurgents, and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat, which is.
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It's also a great movie, period, full of excitement, action, graveyard comedy, and brilliant filmmaking technique. Movie reviews for The Hurt Locker. MRQE Metric: See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer.
Here's the Iraq War movie for those who don't like Iraq War movies. Director Kathryn Bigelow, working from a strong script by embedded journalist Mark Boal, gets. 'The Hurt Locker' Soldiers on a Live Wire Between Peril and Protocol Jeremy Renner in a scene from "The Hurt Locker," directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The Hurt Locker at the Movie Review Zoo; The Hurt Locker DVD [Neil] The Incredible Suit; The Independent Critic [Richard Propes] The Japan Times [Giovanni Fazio] The Kim Newman Website (Kim Newman) The Magic of the Movies [Alex Christensen] The Motley Stew [Luke Goldstein] The Movie Waffler [Eric Hillis] The One-Line Review [Iain Stott] Whatever anyone says, that movie was extremely well crafted even if it lacked an intelligent plot.