Jeremy Renner,
Anthony Mackie,
Brian Geraghty,
Guy Pearce,
Ralph Fiennes
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Based on the personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal (who adapted his experiences with a bomb squad into a fact-based, yet fictional story), director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War-set action... read more
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Release Date: June 26, 2009
DVD Release Date: January 12, 2010
Stats: 14,595 reviews
Real action, real dialogue, and real suspenseful. This film really blew me away. Renner and Mackie put on great performances, and Bigelow does a fantastic job directing. The characters' thoughts and feelings are conveyed very well while the overall realism sets this movie apart f... read more
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An amazing drama war film, well deserving of the Oscar for Best Picture. The shaky camerawork is unnecesary but apart from that, The Hurt Locker is an amazing graphic, intense entertainment experience th... read more
A close-up and personal thumbnail overview of just one U.S. unit during a war, part of a technically superior occupying force in a Third World nation, yes, but still way outnumbered, still way nervous. Bigelow does a superb job of letting us get to know each man intimately as t... read more
First off, I give Kathryn Bigelow a standing ovation for outstanding direction. A phenomenal achievement. This movie is created perfectly; the editing, the cinematography... Kathryn Bigelow brings us into the tense and dangerous environment of these characters. You can grasp the ... read more
One of the times that the Academy got the Best Picture winner spot on.
Insulting to the military and laughable in its attempts to be realistic, because of course the way you defuse seven artillery shells wired together is to go lay on top of them them with a pair of wire cutters and try and cut the wires to the blasting caps. I also learned that eve... read more
One of the best films of the year, with courageous performances from both Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie. It's a near-perfect action/war film that is intense throughout and tough to watch at times. This is the third best film so far this year, right behind "Inglourious Basterds... read more
Normally I don't watch movies about war. Perhaps wars have to be fought, but I don't have to watch movies glorifying wars. Yet this is an interesting film. Primarily about what it takes for one particular soldier to be an Explosive Ordnance Disposal expert (the guy in the bomb... read more
I still don't think this was better than Avatar, but it was gritty and difficult and it stared the "realities" of the Iraq War in the face. I put "realities" in quotations because it's not likely that anyone, in any army unit - particularly a bomb squad, in a war as sensitive as ... read more
The question isn't how do you live with the buzz of looming death; it's how do you live without it? No answers are offered, or even suggested. Full Review
Like her protagonist, Bigelow is both a meticulous technician and a ballsy showoff. And, like him, she has ice water in her veins. Full Review
This beyond-the-headlines war movie, a 'ticking clock' thriller from journalist-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal, is the first Iraq War movie to qualify as more first-rate entertainment than sermon. Full Review
Bigelow's direction is confident -- the action sequences are tense and suspenseful, so much so that The Hurt Locker also works as a straight-up war film. Full Review
The miserably visceral exists here not as exploitation but out of the demands of authenticity. Full Review
It's the best war movie since Full Metal Jacket. Full Review
We've had good and very good Iraq movies for several years now, but The Hurt Locker has a fullness of understanding that sets it apart. Full Review
Just when you thought the battle of Iraq war dramas had been fought and lost, along comes one that demands to be seen -- if you can handle the raging adrenaline. Full Review
Psychologically acute and thrillingly dramatic, The Hurt Locker blows every other Iraq war movie off the screen. Full Review
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Jeremy Renner as Staff Sgt. William James
Anthony Mackie as Sgt J.T. Sanborn
Brian Geraghty as Specialist Owen Eldridge
Guy Pearce as Sgt. Matt Thompson
Ralph Fiennes as Contractor Team Leader
David Morse as Col. Reed
Evangeline Lilly as Connie James
Christian Camargo as Col. John Cambridge
Christopher Sayegh as Beckham
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