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The Hurt Locker
| Release Date | 28 Dec 2009 |
|---|---|
| Director | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Creator |
Jeremy Renner Anthony Mackie Christopher Sayegh Brian Geraghty |
| Actors |
Jeremy Renner Anthony Mackie Christopher Sayegh Nabil Koni Sam Spruell |
| Discs | 1 |
| Region | 2 |
Review
Rightly attracting major awards attention, The Hurt Locker is a supreme, tense and gripping piece of drama. And it grabs your attention from the stunning opening scene, which perfectly gets across the dangers faced by the specialist bomb disposal squad that we spend the rest of the film following.
Chief among them is Jeremy Renner’s Sergeant William James, who is the focal point for much of The Hurt Locker. The film spends some time digging into his head and why he does what he does, and his approach doesn’t always leave him eye-to-eye with the rest of his squad. Renner, in surely a star-making performance, delivers a rounded, three-dimensional portrayal of a man you could easily write off as a maverick, and the film is significantly enriched as a result.
But then with director Kathryn Bigelow behind the camera delivering her best film to date, The Hurt Locker excels still further. Her gritty, haunting visuals look superb in high definition too, evoking the down-to-earth shooting style Bigelow employs, and making the most of the assorted set-pieces she puts on film. It’s the sound that really gets you too, cleverly eating up the full breadth of a good surround-sound set-up, and carefully teasing you more and more into the film.
Not that you’re likely to need much persuading. The Hurt Locker is a terrific war movie, and a very human one. It’s also packaged on a quality Blu-ray that matches up strong presentation with interesting extra feature. It comes very highly recommended. --Jon Foster
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The Hurt Locker -Thrilling but unfulfilling
A brilliant, exciting film that is easy to follow and leaves you sweating. Unfortunately, there is very little to connect you to the main character and by the time the film ends you feel a certain sense of loss. And not in the way you should.
Poor service
Poor service as goods did not arrive & email to suppiler advising was ignored.Now with claims dept of amazon
A superb film.
I saw The Hurt Locker when it was released at the cinema and immediately decided that I would be buying the bluray. And I'm glad I did! The film had periods that made me forget to breathe! The photography is exceptional (especially with the use of the high speed cameras for the slow motion footage) and the soundtrack does a great job of heightening the overall experience.The bluray encode is impeccable, showing sharp detail and vibrant colours.
All in all, I think this is an excellent portrayal of the tensions and lifestyle that go hand in hand with being part of a bomb disposal unit in the Iraq conflict. Awesome.
Hurt locker, story with no end.
Over-rated US splat movie, what Companies will do to sell their sub-standard products to Joe Public, criminal.
What a let down.
I love war movies and its been such a long time since there has been a good one, so I was really excited about watching The Hurt Locker. What a let down. Terrible acting, terrible scene setting, only flashes of good cinematography... I really can't see what all the fuss was about.The only real positive I can think of is its brought a spotlight to these brave men who do the job everyday for very little credit. I could only give this 2 stars. If you haven't seen it, I deffo wouldn't buy it. Just wait for it too come on to TV.