The Hurt Locker has been getting a lot of Oscar buzz. It is one of the only movies that beat out Avatar in any award show this year. Another strange connection to Avatar? The director Kathryn Bigelow was once married to James Cameron. OK, enough with the trivia. This is not a trivia inducing movie. It is a super serious and intense movie. At two hours running time it will leave you a little worn out. The film begins with Sgt. William James (Jeremy Renner) joining an Army demolition team in 2004 Iraq. The team only has 36 days left on their rotation and James is seriously jeopardizing their chances of getting home alive. James is a cowboy and an adrenaline junkie. He lives for the thrill of defusing bombs. He is a complicated character and The Bigelow does a great job bringing him to life without too many of the cliches we have grown accustomed to in war movies. She also does a great job of getting us inside the life of a soldier in Iraq. There are no overt political statements, but you can easily come to your own conclusions of whether or not anything we are doing over there makes sense.
The Hurt Locker is now avaialble on DVD and On Demand. I doubt it will win the Oscar for best picture, but it is in the top three.
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