| The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray] | ![The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XT9SJVA0L._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Evangeline Lilly
Studio: Summit Entertainment
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: SUMBR66112280
UPC: 025192048562
EAN: 0025192048562
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 2009
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (summit) Release Date: 01/12/2010 Run time: 131 minutes Rating: R
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The making of honest action movies has become so rare that Kathryn Bigelow's magnificent The Hurt Locker was shown mostly in art cinemas rather than multiplexes. That's fine; the picture is a work of art. But it also delivers more kinetic excitement, more breath-bating suspense, more putting-you-right-there in the danger zone than all the brain-dead, visually incoherent wrecking derbies hogging mall screens. Partly it's a matter of subject. The movie focuses on an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, the guys whose more or less daily job is to disarm the homemade bombs that have accounted for most U.S. casualties in Iraq. But even more, the film's extraordinary tension derives from the precision and intelligence of Bigelow's direction. She gets every sweaty detail and tactical nuance in the close-up confrontation of man and bomb, while keeping us alert to the volatile wraparound reality of an ineluctably foreign environment--hot streets and blank-walled buildings full of onlookers, some merely curious and some hostile, perhaps thumbing a cellphone that could become a trigger. This is exemplary moviemaking. You don't need CGI, just a human eye, and the imagination to realize that, say, the sight of dust and scale popped off a derelict car by an explosion half a block away delivers more shock value than a pixelated fireball. The setting may be Iraq in 2004, but it could just as well be Thermopylae; The Hurt Locker is no "Iraq War movie." Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal--who did time as a journalist embed with an EOD unit--align themselves with neither supporters nor opponents of the U.S. involvement. There's no politics here. War is just the job the characters in the movie do. One in particular, the supremely resourceful staff sergeant played by Jeremy Renner, is addicted to the almost nonstop adrenaline rush and the opportunity to express his esoteric, life-on-the-edge genius. The hurt locker of the title is a box he keeps under his bunk, filled with bomb parts and other signatory memorabilia of "things that could have killed me." That none of it has killed him so far is no real consolation. In this movie, you never know who's going to go and when; even high-profile talent (we won't name names here) is no guarantee. But one thing can be guaranteed, and that is that almost every sequence in the movie becomes a riveting, often fiercely enigmatic set piece. This is Kathryn Bigelow's best film since 1987's Near Dark. It could also be the best film of 2009. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Deserved Movie of the Year March 20, 2010
Zane (Maryland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was not surprised when The Hurt Locker won The Academy Award for Best Picture. I expected it and had told everyone who would listen that it would win, as well as winning for Best Director. The film gave me a new respect for what people in the military have to deal with on a daily basis. The characters were vividly drawn out and the main character is one to be remembered: a man who could not give up the life because he had become the life.
 Roll the dice March 20, 2010
H. Schneider (window seat)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Oscar winner about men at work. Bomb techs in Baghdad. Ugly jobs in an ugly place. Strong pictures of a world where you don't want to be. Not much story. No message. The world is what it is. War is war. Sometimes dangerous. Foreigners are hard to understand. Life or death are meaningless. Bad things happen. If you make a mistake, your friend may get killed. Or you. Now you see me, now you don't. The bomb is the Great Buddha.
Not a propaganda film. Not for this war. Not against this war. Sometimes boring. Sometimes the workers feel stressed.
Competent little movie set in the Iraq war, but not really `about' it. I find it a little overrated.
Nice little bit parts for Guy Pearce and Ralph Fiennes.
What message did the `best film' academy award intend to give us?
Shouldn't it have been put in the documentary category? Well, maybe not. Some reviewers question the reality content of the film. I can't judge that. Since it focuses on one man with odd behavior, I tend to accept its realism, as long as we take it for a special case. Many odd individuals exist and are not recognized as part of this world by majorities. This does not reduce the value of the film, but it destroys the idea that it tells us a normal story.
A Complex Character in a World of Hurt March 18, 2010
John F. Rooney
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
"The Hurt Locker," this year's Oscar winner, is a very intense Iraq combat film in which Staff Sergeant James (played by Jeremy Renner) is extremely fearless and very adept at defusing planted bombs, but very inept at protecting from harm the men he works closest with. He's a risk-taker, a reckless soldier, who is baffled by civilian life but thrives on the danger of his mission. As a civilian, a fish out of water, an endless line of cereal products in a supermarket flummoxes him, and is a mine field, but yet in a real mine field, he thrives on danger and facing death every day.
He's a complex person who walks fearlessly into an area planted with bombs, but he's not a person to be envied, admired or emulated.
Ironically he has probably saved hundreds of lives by his bomb defusing skills, but saving lives isn't really what motivates him. It is his own personal adrenaline rush, his egotism, and self-absorption which keeps him going. He's not a war lover per se who goes out and slaughters the enemy indiscriminately, but he has the perfect job for his personality because it gives him a chance to play a kind of Russian roulette with his life.
The movie shows him in off-duty situations. He's a heavy drinker, heavy-smoker, and a person who enjoys violent interplay with his mates. They don't like him; they hate him and fear him even though at times he briefly shows compassion towards them. He's a man's man in his own mind, a cowboy, but basically a loner.
Though filmed in Jordan, you get the feeling that you really are in the mean streets of Iraq. The movie won't bore you; it's violent and bloody, but it's the character of Sergeant James that will stay with you. Is he the kind of man who is going to save the world, or is he part of the problem?
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