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The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker

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LOW BUDGET DRAMA

Rating: 2/5

I don't understand when people said this movie deserved the Oscar for Best Picture/ Director, it was just and OK movie,OK acting, nothing WOW about it. I rented it to find out what was all the fuzz about it, got bored, it is a low budget drama.

Deserved Movie of the Year

Rating: 5/5

I was not surprised when The Hurt Locker won The Academy Award for Best Picture. I expected it and had told everyone who would listen that it would win, as well as winning for Best Director. The film gave me a new respect for what people in the military have to deal with on a daily basis. The characters were vividly drawn out and the main character is one to be remembered: a man who could not give up the life because he had become the life.

Roll the dice

Rating: 4/5

Oscar winner about men at work. Bomb techs in Baghdad. Ugly jobs in an ugly place. Strong pictures of a world where you don't want to be. Not much story. No message. The world is what it is. War is war. Sometimes dangerous. Foreigners are hard to understand. Life or death are meaningless. Bad things happen. If you make a mistake, your friend may get killed. Or you. Now you see me, now you don't. The bomb is the Great Buddha.
Not a propaganda film. Not for this war. Not against this war. Sometimes boring. Sometimes the workers feel stressed.
Competent little movie set in the Iraq war, but not really `about' it. I find it a little overrated.
Nice little bit parts for Guy Pearce and Ralph Fiennes.
What message did the `best film' academy award intend to give us?
Shouldn't it have been put in the documentary category? Well, maybe not. Some reviewers question the reality content of the film. I can't judge that. Since it focuses on one man with odd behavior, I tend to accept its realism, as long as we take it for a special case. Many odd individuals exist and are not recognized as part of this world by majorities. This does not reduce the value of the film, but it destroys the idea that it tells us a normal story.

Reality Check

Rating: 2/5

I have been working in Iraq for 2 years directly with the soldiers. This movie played several times at the theater here on base. When I asked the soldiers what they thought about the movie the general concensus was "Typical Hollywood Cowboy stuff nowhere near reality"

A Complex Character in a World of Hurt

Rating: 5/5

"The Hurt Locker," this year's Oscar winner, is a very intense Iraq combat film in which Staff Sergeant James (played by Jeremy Renner) is extremely fearless and very adept at defusing planted bombs, but very inept at protecting from harm the men he works closest with. He's a risk-taker, a reckless soldier, who is baffled by civilian life but thrives on the danger of his mission. As a civilian, a fish out of water, an endless line of cereal products in a supermarket flummoxes him, and is a mine field, but yet in a real mine field, he thrives on danger and facing death every day.
He's a complex person who walks fearlessly into an area planted with bombs, but he's not a person to be envied, admired or emulated.
Ironically he has probably saved hundreds of lives by his bomb defusing skills, but saving lives isn't really what motivates him. It is his own personal adrenaline rush, his egotism, and self-absorption which keeps him going. He's not a war lover per se who goes out and slaughters the enemy indiscriminately, but he has the perfect job for his personality because it gives him a chance to play a kind of Russian roulette with his life.
The movie shows him in off-duty situations. He's a heavy drinker, heavy-smoker, and a person who enjoys violent interplay with his mates. They don't like him; they hate him and fear him even though at times he briefly shows compassion towards them. He's a man's man in his own mind, a cowboy, but basically a loner.
Though filmed in Jordan, you get the feeling that you really are in the mean streets of Iraq. The movie won't bore you; it's violent and bloody, but it's the character of Sergeant James that will stay with you. Is he the kind of man who is going to save the world, or is he part of the problem?