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Hurt Locker, The (2009) Rank 2 Reviews
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New York Magazine
One of Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal's few missteps comes right at the start: an onscreen quote from journalist Chris Hedges to the effect that war is a drug, "a potent and often lethal addiction. ...read the complete Hurt Locker movie review at New York Magazine
Hollywood & Fine
As he says to Sanborn and Eldridge afterwards, what fun is the job if you play it safe? How do you know you're alive unless you confront death and walk away still breathing? ...read the complete Hurt Locker movie review at Hollywood & Fine
TIME.com
The U.S. Army bomb disposal unit has three men: an intelligence officer, the specialist who covers the scene with his rifle and the staff sergeant who walks up to the device and tries to turn it off. ...read the complete Hurt Locker movie review at TIME.com
rocchireport.com
The Hurt Locker looks and feels like a terrific action film, but there's a piece of art ticking away within it that goes off inside your head and your heart while you're watching. ...read the complete Hurt Locker movie review at rocchireport.com
The New Yorker
As Eldridge and Sanborn jerk their guns this way and that at a bomb scene, Bigelow, working with the great cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, jerks the camera around, too. ...read the complete Hurt Locker movie review at The New Yorker
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by aravind08 on July 17, 2009 ,
I very like this movie, because here the action story and many scene contain the thrilling, most of people like this type of movie, nice say ...
by cicero0000 on July 16, 2009 Half Moon Bay, California
Not only a terrific war movie, but a must-see film that nails the Iraq War specifically. This story of a bomb squad is much more suspense than action, and shows us how this desert battle, with unseen enemies and danger at every moment, is different from ...
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