The Hurt Locker
This movie is about people who detonate bombs in battles. James is now made the captain of the bomb in a situation where both teams have inner conflicts.
7 August 1962, Palestine
1 January 1977, Southwark, London, England, UK
7 July 1971, New York City, New York, USA
22 April 1980, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
1972 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3 August 1979, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada
22 December 1962, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
23 September 1978, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
23 April 1977, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
27 September 1983, Amman, Jordan
February 25, 2015
There is much that is fiercely modest about its ambitions. And, for a war film, it is often disconcertingly quiet.
February 25, 2015
This is a harrowing picture, made all the more disturbing because it's based in a war that is being waged right now.
February 25, 2015
An important, intense, nail-biting experience -- really quite unforgettable.
February 16, 2016
More than anything, The Hurt Locker is a high-wire study of men at work, its lack of overt politics replaced by a revelatory central performance.
July 24, 2009
Like every war before it, the U.S. invasion of Iraq has generated its share of movies. But The Hurt Locker is the first of them that can properly be called a masterpiece.
February 23, 2016
We may not like Staff Sgt. James all that much, but those of us who get our adrenaline fixes at the movies can recognize a bit of ourselves in him.
July 24, 2009
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.
August 29, 2009
Bigelow's film combines an expert management of tension with a sensitive and journalistic attention to detail: she has one eye on the truth and the other on the multiplex.
February 25, 2015
One of the best-made films of 2009.
July 30, 2009
One of the best movies of the year, with a star-making performance from Jeremy Renner.
July 24, 2009
Like her protagonist, Bigelow is both a meticulous technician and a ballsy showoff. And, like him, she has ice water in her veins.
November 24, 2011
Director Kathryn Bigelow, doing her run-'n'-gun best, doesn't mine traditional suspense so much as impart a queasy feeling of monotony.
