"The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug"
These words sump up The hurt locker, director Kathryn Bigelow's masterful take on the Iraq war and the emotional burden it inflicts on the people who have to go through every day risking their lives for something they may not understand but it's the only thing they know.
The film follows Sergeant First Class Will James (Jeremy Renner) who becomes the leader of an Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit with the U.S. Army's Bravo Company. James is very good at what he does. In fact, during his rotation in Iraq in disarmed 873 bombs. However, he's also a junkie. He's addicted to his job and will stop at nothing to complete it, even take of fhis suit because if he's gonna die, he wants to die comfortably. But however capable James is on the field, simple things like buying a box of cereal for his infant son becomes a terrible ordeal.
War as a drug is at the center of this story and Kathryn Bigelow filles every single scene with gut wrenching intensity which shows just how much James really enjoys what he does. Of course, much of this also credit to Jeremy Renner whose performance is surely to get a Best actor nomination.
Next to being a fascinating psychological study, The hurt locker is also one of the best action movies in recent memory. Bigelow, a veteran when it comes to depicting realistic action sequences relies on practical effects and her camera work to suck us into. a world where a little boy becomes a dangerous weapon. One of my favorite movies which she did a similar thing is Point break which has the best foot chase ever filmed. Here she films every set piece virtually without any music and allows silence to create the atmosphere. This especially comes into play in what is possibly the best sniper shoot-out I've ever seen.
The thing that I loved the most about his film is that the enemy is practically invisible or "not human" The enemies are the bombs, the enemy is James against himself. The enemy in the sniper shoot-out is hidden in the desert landscape.
The hurt locker is a perfect example that it is possible to make a movie that is thought-provoking and disturbing but has unbeliveably intense scenes which are up there with the best straight out action movies. It is a near masterpiece and one of the best war films ever made. When people want to see a realistic portrail of what it's like to be in the middle of a hell that is war, they will turn to The hurt locker.
To conclude, I wanna say that I'm really proud (sappy as it sounds) of Kathryn Bigelow. In a genre that belongs to the Michael Bays and the Roland Emmerichs and in the year that gave us junk like Transformers: revenge of the Fallen, Terminator salvation and X-men origins: Wolverine, she's the one who delivered the the most intense film of the year and not only did she do it without any CGI, she once again (as she did with Point break) proves that A-list Hollywood is not just a man's world.
The film follows Sergeant First Class Will James (Jeremy Renner) who becomes the leader of an Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit with the U.S. Army's Bravo Company. James is very good at what he does. In fact, during his rotation in Iraq in disarmed 873 bombs. However, he's also a junkie. He's addicted to his job and will stop at nothing to complete it, even take of fhis suit because if he's gonna die, he wants to die comfortably. But however capable James is on the field, simple things like buying a box of cereal for his infant son becomes a terrible ordeal.
War as a drug is at the center of this story and Kathryn Bigelow filles every single scene with gut wrenching intensity which shows just how much James really enjoys what he does. Of course, much of this also credit to Jeremy Renner whose performance is surely to get a Best actor nomination.
Next to being a fascinating psychological study, The hurt locker is also one of the best action movies in recent memory. Bigelow, a veteran when it comes to depicting realistic action sequences relies on practical effects and her camera work to suck us into. a world where a little boy becomes a dangerous weapon. One of my favorite movies which she did a similar thing is Point break which has the best foot chase ever filmed. Here she films every set piece virtually without any music and allows silence to create the atmosphere. This especially comes into play in what is possibly the best sniper shoot-out I've ever seen.
The thing that I loved the most about his film is that the enemy is practically invisible or "not human" The enemies are the bombs, the enemy is James against himself. The enemy in the sniper shoot-out is hidden in the desert landscape.
The hurt locker is a perfect example that it is possible to make a movie that is thought-provoking and disturbing but has unbeliveably intense scenes which are up there with the best straight out action movies. It is a near masterpiece and one of the best war films ever made. When people want to see a realistic portrail of what it's like to be in the middle of a hell that is war, they will turn to The hurt locker.
To conclude, I wanna say that I'm really proud (sappy as it sounds) of Kathryn Bigelow. In a genre that belongs to the Michael Bays and the Roland Emmerichs and in the year that gave us junk like Transformers: revenge of the Fallen, Terminator salvation and X-men origins: Wolverine, she's the one who delivered the the most intense film of the year and not only did she do it without any CGI, she once again (as she did with Point break) proves that A-list Hollywood is not just a man's world.
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