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Powerful drama!! Not that much blood to gross you out. But the action is dramatic. If you really want to know a real synosis of the Iraq war.( In one point of view) Watch the movie. It's a movie so they still exaggerate the character. But in a view few of us think about. Plus the movie was filmed in Iraq to make it that much more surreal. The movie No End In Sight about the Iraq war is a documentary, And this is a movie. If you don't like talking about a pink elephant in your living room. Don'******* the movie. Like I said it powerful. Masterpiece in my eyes, the moive will be up for awards. Because it so believable.
07/02/2009, 5:33 am
Absolutely one of the best movies I've seen! Only part I didnt like was the drunken fight scene in the barracks..They could have left that out!
08/25/2009, 10:47 am
Not a war film buff. Ex-military not disabled . This is an excellent movie. BCB Cmdr, ret
07/18/2009, 5:28 pm
EASILY the best movie of the summer.. even though that's not saying much with the horrible summer flix of 09. I've been around military my whole life, I'm in the military.. and thought this movie was pretty accurate for the "time" it was portraying, '04 I think. Seriously, it was so intense and you totally felt for all the characters individually.. even his wife and kid back home.. This movie owns..
08/04/2009, 1:06 am
ABOLUTELY AMAZING!! If this movie does not get something from either the Golden Globes or the Oscars, then there is NO JUSTICE in the world! Jeremy Renner is fantastic!! And remember, this is based on real life military personnel, whose jobs are to actually denonate bombs on a daily basis!! Go....see this movie!! It will blow you away (no pun intended!!)
07/21/2009, 7:03 pm
Spectacular film! Easily the best film of the year so far.
09/11/2009, 1:41 pm
Very realistic. I do, however, agree with other people that they could have done more to explain what a "hurt locker" is? Photography was excellent! My husband and I really felt what a bomb squad soldier feels. I didn't enjoy the drunk punching scenes back at the barracks. Advertisements should have mentioned that Ralph Finnes has only a cameo appearance.
08/23/2009, 4:30 pm
I liked it, but I didn't find it nearly as intense as many others have. The acting is excellent, but the way the movie was put together seemed disjointed, had no real charecter development, and was simply one action scene after another. Good movie, not great.
07/20/2009, 4:12 pm
One of the best movies I have ever seen.
07/12/2009, 1:24 am
First off, the movie was not bad, in fact, it was average. I would give it a straight average rating. However, for other reasons (below), I severely disliked it, and am giving it 1 star, to make people pay attention to what I have to say. Let me preempt accusations that I am insenstitive to the accute tribulations of so many Veterans that have returned home "whole but scarred." Battle stress and psychological trauma are horrible problems that need more awareness and attention so that we may educate the public and help our Veterans in need. However, simply combining this subject with cinematic realism (which Hurt Locker has in spades) does not a good movie make. This movie is to EOD and US Forces in Iraq as Maverick was to Top Gun. In fact, worse. I can tell you this as a statement of fact because I am a Naval Aviator, and because I worked with EOD as an advisor in Iraq for a year. I was not insulated from what war really is and served in what will be remembered as the War's worst time (06-07). So this guy, James, the EOD cowboy, is worse than Maverick. He puts lives at risk by doing his own thing. He gets off on the danger. Simply suggesting that someone like him may exist out there (which is simply an impossibility, like Tom Cruise's maverick) absolutely trashes the professionalism and pride of the Army and EOD in particular. But further than that, the whole driving goal of the movie is to suggest that deep down, inside each Soldier, if they are there long enough, lurks the supreme desire to court death at the expense of all other desires. It's a given in this movie that the war is useless - the last scene outside the wire is kids throwing rocks at an M1114 ("Humvee"). But the "deathwish cowboy" is an inevitable, even exalted ideal for the Army in this movie...a Colonel seeks out James to praise him in front of his Soldiers...and in a quietly poignant scene (the drunken brawl mentioned in other reviews), Sanborn, the moral anchor of the EOD team, asks if he is good enough to "wear the suit," revealing that even level-headed, ethical Soldiers will become emotionally blunted war addicts given enough time. These then are the movie's messages; the War is a futile political effort that rips the soul out of every citizen Soldier going In Country. Certainly others have thought and said as much - many whose opinions come from newspaper reports and the psychic imprint of Vietnam on the American moral conscience - but the really insidious and wretched aspect of this movie is ********** undebiably tarnishes the US Soldier to make its statement.
09/19/2009, 1:23 am
