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AUG 10, 2009
'The Hurt Locker' FILM
'The Hurt Locker'

The Hurt Locker—Hollywood's first successfully engrossing narrative film about the Iraq war—communicates the absolute insanity, chaos, tension, psychological impact, and sudden brutality of war without beating you over the head with the war-is-bad stick. The Hurt Locker follows a three-man ordnance disposal unit in Iraq as they trudge from bomb site to bomb site, defusing explosives. There is no villain, the squad members aren't pithy tough guys, there is no overarching mission the squad must complete in three acts—their lone goal is survival. It's pants-shittingly tense. (See Movie Times: thestranger.com/film.) by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

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I saw this last night. It is awesome!
Posted by clint on August 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM · Report
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pants-shittingly ftw.

ps: Jonah's review, all the way down to his description of the level of tension, is accurate.
Posted by matt on August 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM · Report
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Funny, I hated it. Hackneyed, cliched, just boring. No character development except in really obvious ways; distracting music, distracting cameos by famous actors - I was really disappointed. I never got involved enough to get tense at all. I love a good action movie, and I'm fascinated by good war films - skip this and rent Generation Kill instead.
Posted by Patti on August 10, 2009 at 1:54 PM · Report
dan10things 4
I haven't seen it yet, but Generation Kill predates it by a few years, doesn't it? Everyone I know that's fought in either of the gulf wars has said Generation Kill pretty much nailed their experience... which is pretty sad.
Posted by dan10things http://10thingszine.blogspot.com on August 10, 2009 at 2:55 PM · Report
buck futter 5
this film is almost total suck. well filmed with tense action sequences but utterly cliched with terrible dialogue. do yourself a favor and skip it.
Posted by buck futter on August 10, 2009 at 4:04 PM · Report

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