The Hurt Locker, the 2009 Best Picture Oscar winner deals with one of the most unique and dangerous professions in which tension and intensity run high because any moment–or second–can mean the difference between life and death.
The Hurt Locker shows that the big bang action factor doesn’t have to come right away, in the opening scene.
Grade: A
While nothing happens to the soldiers for hours–most instances are false alarms–but if they slip up once, like cut the wrong wire, and BOOM!
However, everything after this scene is now viewed with a different perspective.
Spectators are made to understand the high stakes–life and death–but also the thrills described in the movie’s tagline as “War is a drug.”
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