IMDB plot summary: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty.
The Hurt Locker has a few very, very good scenes, scenes I haven't seen before or that were done in an interesting, original way. But those were all in the final 45 minutes, and there were far more long, uninteresting combat scenes where I had to fight VERY hard to stay focused on the story. A large part of this is a genre prejudice, I admit, but war movies have overcome that before and been very touching for me (Saving Private Ryan being the most recent example). The Hurt Locker just doesn't offer enough, certainly not to justify it as a Best Picture winner. 2 stars.
Best Part: The scene with the suicide bomber was tense and tragic and very, very well done.
Worst Part: WHAT was that entire combat scene with Ralph Fiennes about? It went on forever and neither furthered the plot nor increased my knowledge of the characters, with the possible exception of the scene with the scared soldier at the end.
Flickchart: #1324, below Fantastic Voyage and above Mission: Impossible.
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