The Hurt Locker
You'll know when you're in it…
2010 Best Picture Oscar™ winner The Hurt Locker is a riveting, suspenseful
portrait of the courage under fire of the military's unrecognized heroes: the
technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives
doing one of the world's most dangerous jobs.
Based on the personal wartime experiences of journalist Mark Boal; Academy
Award® winning director Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War set action thriller The
Hurt Locker presents the conflict in the Middle East from the perspective of
those who witnessed the fighting firsthand – the soldiers.
Critic Reviews:
- " Powerful, alluring, and eye-opening entertainment. " –
Mike Massie
- " Switching effortlessly between passages of nerve-shredding suspense
and ones of adrenalin-charged excitement, The Hurt Locker blows away the
competition. " – Jason Best
- " A muscular film that literally embeds the audience inside the hell
that is war. " – Richard Propes