The Hurt Locker (2009)

The Hurt Locker (2009)

Synopsis: The Hurt Locker, winner of the 2008 Venice Film Festival SIGNIS Grand Prize, is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the militarys unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives in one of the worlds most dangerous places. Three members of the Armys elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and each other as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad—in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear—protect and save—but its anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. This thrilling and heart-pounding look at the effects of combat and danger on the human psyche is based on the first-hand observations of journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq. These men spoke of explosions as putting you in the hurt locker.

Three members of the Army’s elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad battle insurgents and each other as they seek out and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad.

Review: I was not aware that this won Best Picture over Avatar! I’m happy though, this movie was FRIGGING AWESOME. Seriously, it pwns Avatar any day. Avatar was great for special effects, I’ll admit that, but The Hurt Locker had such a good storyline. I’m not joking when I say Avatar = Pochahontas ‘coz honestly, when I walked out of the theatre, that was the first thing I thought of and said to my brother. THIS movie however did not even require a lot of action scenes or special effects to make it a great movie. It was shot well, it was directed well, the storyline was awesome, the character development was awesome, the actors were awesome, it was real and depicted war well AND it was extremely suspenseful. Seriously, I felt like I was sitting on the edge of my seat the entire movie, it was that great and trust me, some movies which people thought were “awesome” just made me fall asleep. GO WATCH IT!

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