adonis98-743-186503 An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat, behaving as if he's indifferent to death. The Hurt Locker is probably the most overrated and boring mess of a film i have ever seen in my life and unfortunately the good actors could not save it. (0/10)

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The Hurt Locker" (2008)The sixth war-movie, after World-War-I motion pictures "Wings" (1927), "All Quiet On The Western Front" (1930), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) as World-War-II film "The Bridge On The River Kwai" (1957) both directed by David Lean and the all-towering Vietnam-War portrayal "Platoon" (1986) directed by Oliver Stone; here to win an Academy-Award for Best Picture in 2010 at the Oscars in its 82nd edition, convinces as confronts recent U.S. American military history, raising questions on psychological side effects with army soldiers involved towards high notes on efficiency-work under inhuman stress situations and never-seen-before internal affairs rivalry until opening up to each other in ravishing horrors of war scenarios. Director Kathryn Bigelow together with journalist-turning-screenwriter Mark Boal, also winning Academy Awards in their respective field of work, deliver a non-stop gripping war-action-movie, which follows a U.S. Army elite squad in the Iraq Conflict part two, outgoing from a 2003 mission operative given by the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush administration to wipe out any hypercritical assumption of the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein having the capability to launch nuclear weapons onto the western civilization, which then again found its Hollywood conclusions in the high-scale 100-Million-Dollar motion picture "Green Zone" starring Matt Damon directed by Paul Greengrass; another Iraq-war-movie also visually-captured by cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, who delivers an image system for "The Hurt Locker" out-of-the ordinary with into-battle handheld camera operations on Super 16mm filmstock, capturing the main cast triangle, performed by picture-carrying actor Jeremy Renner as Staff Sergeant James with career-defining intensity as his emotional supports Anthony Mackie and Brian Geragthy do cope with full-frontal, war-times character confrontations ranging from open swearing into each others faces as heavy drinking, punching and kicking, machine-gun firing proportions under Kathryn Bigelow's relentless brutal-realities-exposing directions of an infamous fictitious bomb squad, taking emotional turns to an 125-Minute at times overly-cut editorial in favor of this awe-striking motion picture effort of making sense in chaotic, who is responsible, how-to-endure times of hidden bomb shells from the underground to suicide bombers with endless grip on any spectator's nerves until the credits roll after the incorporated title-justifying premise shot by the end of the picture.World-premiering to minor attention at Venice Film Festival in September 2008, takes "The Hurt Locker" on a continuous festival circuit into spring 2009 before the picture, which also includes mesmerizing cameos by Guy Pearce, David Morse and Ralph Fiennes as full-armored desert-strike mercenary, gets a U.S. domestic distribution deal from June to August 2009 to nevertheless fortune-faded successes of an underdog independent production, which then again receiving stunningly 9 Academy-Award nominations, including Best Actor for Jeremy Renner, after an unusual one year delaying time period of recognition, to come out as a six times Academy-Award-winning picture to further prevail on any war-movie-interested audience's timetable.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

SonyeoMargit I dont see any need of making that kinda film. There was nothing. Just man playing with guns.

classicsoncall Technically this is a brilliantly made movie, but on a personal level, I don't understand the accolades thrown it's way, especially the Best Picture win at the Oscars. The film is more a string of related vignettes that could have been presented in any chronological order and you'd have the same movie. Maybe that's the point, as day after day, real life soldiers in a combat situation must face either mind numbing, nerve shattering stress or sheer boredom during down time.The 'war is a drug' theme is what's eventually conceded when Sgt. Will James (Jeremy Renner) is shown home on leave, dutifully cleaning out the gutters of his home and playing with his toddler son. For warriors, the lack of an adrenaline rush is what propels these individuals back into a combat zone leaving loved ones behind to wonder what drives their other half. A similar theme comes through in 2014's "American Sniper", although in this one, the destructive effects of James' war service on his marriage is only hinted at, though there is that one scene in which he questions whether he's married or not.The one scene that threw me was when Sgt. James wound up seeing the young Iraqi 'Beckham' (Christopher Sayegh) after being certain that the boy was already dead. One of the FAQ's on this site answers the question definitively, but I'm sure most viewers would prefer their own interpretation. What would have been interesting at some point might have had Sgt. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) confess his demon thoughts about killing James during one of their early missions together. That scene kept intruding on my mind for the rest of the picture, and it might have offered some further insight into how these soldiers approached their impossible jobs.