Excellent movie! http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hurt_locker/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809914561/info The making of honest action movies has become so rare that Kathryn Bigelow's magnificent The Hurt Locker was shown mostly in art cinemas rather than multiplexes. That's fine; the picture is a work of art. But it also delivers more kinetic excitement, more breath-bating suspense, more putting-you-right-there in the danger zone than all the brain-dead, visually incoherent wrecking derbies hogging mall screens. Partly it's a matter of subject. The movie focuses on an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, the guys whose more or less daily job is to disarm the homemade bombs that have accounted for most U.S. casualties in Iraq. But even more, the film's extraordinary tension derives from the precision and intelligence of Bigelow's direction. She gets every sweaty detail and tactical nuance in the close-up confrontation of man and bomb, while keeping us alert to the volatile wraparound reality of an ineluctably foreign environment--hot streets and blank-walled buildings full of onlookers, some merely curious and some hostile, perhaps thumbing a cellphone that could become a trigger. This is exemplary moviemaking. You don't need CGI, just a human eye, and the imagination to realize that, say, the sight of dust and scale popped off a derelict car by an explosion half a block away delivers more shock value than a pixelated fireball. http://www.amazon.com/Hurt-Locker-Ra...3338783&sr=1-1
Wife and I rented this via RedBox tonight. Have to say that it was a pretty incredible movie from start to finish. Really liked it from an action standpoint, but I thought that the storyline was awesome as well, particularly the ending. "Tense" is how I would sum it up, as I was literally chewing my fingernails throughout. Strongly recommended. 5 of 5 stars.
