Making honest action movies has become so rare that magnificent Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker has shown especially in art houses instead of multiplexes. That's fine, the image is a work of art. But it also offers more excitement kinetics, yielded more breath hold, putting more-you-get-right in the danger zone that the brains of all dead, visually incoherent demolition derby hogging the screens of the mall. This is partly a matter of subject. The film focuses on a team of explosive ordnance disposal, the boys whose more or less a day of work is to disarm homemade bombs that have accounted for most U.S. casualties in Iraq. But even more, the extraordinary tension of the film derives from the precision and intelligence of the leadership of Bigelow. She gets all sweaty tactical details and nuances in the foreground the clash of man and the bomb, while remaining alert to surround reality inevitably volatile foreign environment - hot streets and white-walled buildings full of onlookers, some curious and some hostile, perhaps turning over a mobile phone could become a trigger. This is moviemaking copy. You do not need CGI, only a human eye and the imagination to realize that, for example, the view of the dust and scale of an abandoned car removed by an explosion a half block offers more shock value ball fire pixelated.
The adjustment may be Iraq in 2004, but could very well be the Thermopylae; film is The Hurt Locker "Iraq War". Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal - who did time as a journalist with a unit integrating EOD - add to or supporters or opponents of U.S. involvement. There are no politics here. War is only the work of the film's characters do. One in particular, the highly resourceful staff sergeant played by Jeremy Renner, is addicted to adrenaline almost nonstop and the opportunity to express their esoteric life-in-the-art genius. Title The Hurt Locker is a picture he keeps under his bed, filled with bomb parts and other items of signatories to "things that could have killed me." That none of that has killed so far is not a real comfort. In this film, you never know who's going and when, even high-profile talent (we will not name names here) is not guaranteed. But one thing can be guaranteed, and is that almost all sequences of the film becomes a fascinating, often strongly fault enigmatic. This is Kathryn Bigelow's best film since 1987 by about Dark. It could also be the best movie of 2009.
- Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Anthony Mackie
- Directors: Kathryn Bigelow
- Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Number of discs: 1
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Studio: Summit Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: January 12, 2010
- Run Time: 131 minutes
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