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Jeremy Renner
Anthony Mackie
Guy Pearce
Ralph Fiennes
David Morse
Evangeline Lilly

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An elite bomb squad in Iraq is assigned a new sergeant who wastes no time taking his unit into the deadly urban chaos with reckless abandon. As his men struggle to understand his death wish, his true character is revealed that will affect every man.

01/21/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

I hate myself. (and i'm not emo.)

Okay Last Year, right off the bat i named "The Dark Knight" the best movie of the year last year. This seems okay, but i did it before seeing all the contenders. After i had, i came to my senses and recognized "Slumdog Millionaire" as 08's best movie. This year i have made the same error: I named "up in the Air" the best of 09 without seeing the other contenders. After seeing it on demand the other day, i simply must name "Hurt Locker" as the best of 09.

If I could describe Kathryn Bigelow's latest movie, "The Hurt Locker", in one word, it would be: authentic. This is an Iraq War movie that neither glorifies nor condemns the conflict; it simply shows it. This film provides a glimpse into the lives of three soldiers that dismantle bombs for a living, a dangerous job inside an already da...

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4/4 

11/05/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Good and intense but not perfect

saw the hurt locker and liked it but not to an extreme amount. The flaws I saw in it were few but there. One being the main hero did standard action movie cliche of not using the safe method instead using the "cool" method (not using the robot. Also the film had the cameos from known actors which I thought were distracting because they showed up just to be killed, which was almost like the stars aren't safe therefore the main characters are not. Finally there were too many middle eastern characters who acted like psychopaths for no reason namely that taxi driver. Overall though the film was properly intense and well done in that way but in the end it could have used less cliches.

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3/4 

07/20/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Tough to watch, but very good

A breakthough regarding recent war-themed movies, The Hurt Locker is a stunning and suspenseful film about a bomb squad in Baghdad nearing the end of their rotation. As they struggle daily with dangerous situations, a new sergeant joins the squad and immediately changes the dynamic for all involved. The cinematography makes you feel as if you are in Iraq yourself. There's a variety of emotions, what got me the most is the men involved who are embracing their duty as this is all they have in life. My only complaint is a situation near the end, when the characters do something that would rival any stupid decision in a teen horror movie, but other than that, it's easily one of the best of the year.

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4/4