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Ten years later and The Hurt Locker is still not a good movie. Discussion. It won best picture and was critically acclaimed yet nobody ever talks about or even remembers this film. At the time I found it completely lacking, it had no plot and had absolutely nothing to say about the Iraq War.
- Heroes of the Invasion. When the President of the United States sent troops to invade Iraq over fears the country’s strongman, Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction, Americans were split over the decision to go to war.
- Superb acting. Before they became huge stars as part of the Marvel Universe starring in the Captain America and Avengers franchise, Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie were up-and-coming unknown actors when they starred in this film.
- Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow has been proving for years that women filmmakers can direct great action films; she has been directing some of the best action films released over the last 30 years, and “The Hurt Locker” is, without question, her best film to date.
- Filmed on Super 16mm. Filmed on the smaller format of Super 16mm, the film has a grainy real-life visual style in its depiction of war. Most films are shot on the bigger 35mm format or on digital capture.
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. Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. ... An...
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- Kathryn Bigelow
- R
- Jeremy Renner
The Hurt Locker: Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce. During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
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- Drama, Thriller, War
- Kathryn Bigelow
- 2009-07-31
Jul 8, 2009 · “The Hurt Locker” is a spellbinding war film by Kathryn Bigelow, a master of stories about men and women who choose to be in physical danger. She cares first about the people, then about the danger. She doesn’t leave a lot of room for much else.
It was a great movie (easily on my top 5 for the year) but with people saying it is "a near perfect movie" gets people prepared to see one thing, when it is something completely different. The real issue is not the movie, but the journalists trying to get their quote on the movie poster by saying such things as that.
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The Hurt Locker, despite claims about its "apolitical" or "non-partisan" character, proves in its own unsavory fashion to be a pro-war and pro-imperialist film. Full Review | Feb 13, 2021
