I rented The Hurt Locker recently, and I thought it was a good, but not great, movie.The Hurt Locker was a character study more than anything else. The movie felt very static with no real plot and no character development.
Many scenes were interesting, but others I found pointedly unbelievable; the latter surely a detriment for a supposedly realistic portrayal of soldiers in Iraq. I thought it absurd that a 3-man bomb squad would be left with no support in the midst of hostile territory on a regular basis.
Who knows, maybe it really does happen that way and I'm ignorant of some tactical or strategic benefit to doing so. Regardless, until I learn otherwise I'm attributing it to artistic license.
I give The Hurt Locker 3 out of 5 stars.
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