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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
Thriller /
War
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Release:
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Director:
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Kathryn Bigelow
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Actors:
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Christian Camargo,
Sam Spruell,
Sam Redford,
Suhail Aldabbach,
Christopher Sayegh,
Nabil Koni,
Feisal Sadoun,
Barrie Rice,
Jeremy Renner,
Anthony Mackie,
Brian Geraghty,
Guy Pearce,
Ralph Fiennes,
David Morse,
Evangeline Lilly
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)183
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Plot Summary:
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An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who entertain one of the most risky jobs in the area: disarming bombs in the heat of do battle. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by recklessly plunging them into a deadly racket of urban confrontation. James behaves as if he's indifferent to passing. As the men struggle to mechanism their wild new leader, the borough explodes into chaos, and James' spot on label reveals itself in a course that will shift each man forever.
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Tags:
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Hurt Locker, The
"The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." This quote, lifted from renowned Middle East correspondent Chris Hedges' book 'War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning' (2002), is the text that opens Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker - itself scripted by journalist Mark Boal and drawn from his experiences embedded with an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team in Iraq in 2004. Viewers would do well, amidst the high-tension chaos that follows, to remember Hedges' words, as they represent one of the only verbal articulations of the film's principal theme. Like all the best directors, Bigelow prefers showing to telling, and so she immerses viewers in a physical, moral and psychological landscape that is always compelling to watch, but ...
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