Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

owolsen-62355 Had high expectations for this movie, but was really let down by it. I found the characters to be unbelievable. The way some of them acted made no sense. I'm not a soldier, but I have so much trouble believing most of what happens in this movie could possibly be acceptable behaviour for soldiers or officers. Could not finish it. Just didn't care anymore after a while.

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)

britneyspearsisgorgeous I know it's like beating a deadhorse but having been in the Army as infantry, where we actually called up/escorted EOD at times, I just can't get over the overall lack of realism in this movie. A single Humvee going through Iraq? Nope, doesn't happen. I have tried to watch this movie a few times and I just can't get past the egregious errors they make regarding military practices.I'm sure a civilian watching this might think it's a good movie, so if you haven't served then by all means watch it and enjoy. But I don't know how anybody who put time in the military can watch this and take it at all serious.

Floated2 The Hurt Locker is one of the more critically praised war-based films of all time. Having winning best picture Oscar, the hype was heavily surrounded. For most critics it was well loved, but for several film goers they did not like the film as winning best picture.The Hurt Locker does deliver in terms of its technical aspects and overall directing, cinematography and visuals. It is very well shot, and well edited. And the characters and performances from leads Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie are star making and they instantly elevate the film. One can see some of the criticism some people say about the film that it isn't that action packed and suspenseful. And I can agree, most of the film is of the three crew members in Iraq protecting the area, diffusing bombs and overall protecting themselves from the locals. I did not find it as suspenseful or gripping as it has been described but still an entertaining watch-mainly for the performance of Jeremy Renner. Although quite predictable, though this is a film that seems to require more than one watch.