The Hurt Locker Review

The Hurt Locker
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

The Hurt Locker from the start pulls every emotion you could ever want tugged on throughout an evening at a movie; laughter, fear, tension, sadness, and anxiety. The Hurt locker places you in the minds of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit(EOD) and tosses you unto the streets of Iraq where danger could be under any innocent looking mans shirt walking past you. Jeremy Renner(28 weeks later) plays the newly appointed replacement EOD leader of Delta group located in Iraq where just a few days ago. Co-star Anthony Mackie(8 mile, Notorious) who plays another member of Delta lost their beloved original group leader.
The Hurt Locker goes on, to portray Jeremy Renner to be a loose cannon and a crazed adrenaline junkie; through many heart stopping and jaw dropping scenes. If one pays close attention they will be able to tell just how well this movie was shot. How every intense scene is pulled off, due to the amazing effort and thought used by Kathryn Bigelow. The Hurt Locker with all its heart pounding action will have you laughing at how insane the job of an EOD really is and it will have audiences squirm with excitement at the many hair raising jaw dropping experiences Delta group face.
But underlying these thrilling moments of intensity lays a true story of a real job, a real war, and real emotions. Like every good war movie the writer, actors, and director try to show the emotions of the soldiers and what they had to go through in the time of war. Where other war movies fail to show this The Hurt Locker picks up the physiological card and runs it to and through the finish line. The audience falls witness to three men who are thrown into the craziest part of a war the most deadliest job and shown how these three men deal with being in a war. The Hurt Locker shows the true physiological effects of war, it shows how these soldiers break down and how each individual handles his emotional break downs different. The Hurt Locker captures how the human mind and body weren't built as war machines and almighty killing machines, this film shows how humans break; even the toughest of our kind can't handle everything.
Built off amazing acting a well written script and a caring touch of the camera The Hurt Locker is the best dramatization of the Iraq War known to date. If you are seeking thrills, some laughs, and a movie that will have you gain new respect for our soldiers placed in this war The Hurt Locker is for you.
This is the type of movie that sneaks up on you with how good it is, and you don't realize just how amazing it is until the final scene rolls off the screen.