| The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray] | ![The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XT9SJVA0L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Evangeline Lilly
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  251 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: SUMBR66112280
UPC: 025192048562
EAN: 0025192048562
ASIN: B00275EGX8
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 2009
Release Date: January 12, 2010
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (summit) Release Date: 01/12/2010 Run time: 131 minutes Rating: R
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The making of honest action movies has become so rare that Kathryn Bigelow's magnificent The Hurt Locker was shown mostly in art cinemas rather than multiplexes. That's fine; the picture is a work of art. But it also delivers more kinetic excitement, more breath-bating suspense, more putting-you-right-there in the danger zone than all the brain-dead, visually incoherent wrecking derbies hogging mall screens. Partly it's a matter of subject. The movie focuses on an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, the guys whose more or less daily job is to disarm the homemade bombs that have accounted for most U.S. casualties in Iraq. But even more, the film's extraordinary tension derives from the precision and intelligence of Bigelow's direction. She gets every sweaty detail and tactical nuance in the close-up confrontation of man and bomb, while keeping us alert to the volatile wraparound reality of an ineluctably foreign environment--hot streets and blank-walled buildings full of onlookers, some merely curious and some hostile, perhaps thumbing a cellphone that could become a trigger. This is exemplary moviemaking. You don't need CGI, just a human eye, and the imagination to realize that, say, the sight of dust and scale popped off a derelict car by an explosion half a block away delivers more shock value than a pixelated fireball. The setting may be Iraq in 2004, but it could just as well be Thermopylae; The Hurt Locker is no "Iraq War movie." Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal--who did time as a journalist embed with an EOD unit--align themselves with neither supporters nor opponents of the U.S. involvement. There's no politics here. War is just the job the characters in the movie do. One in particular, the supremely resourceful staff sergeant played by Jeremy Renner, is addicted to the almost nonstop adrenaline rush and the opportunity to express his esoteric, life-on-the-edge genius. The hurt locker of the title is a box he keeps under his bunk, filled with bomb parts and other signatory memorabilia of "things that could have killed me." That none of it has killed him so far is no real consolation. In this movie, you never know who's going to go and when; even high-profile talent (we won't name names here) is no guarantee. But one thing can be guaranteed, and that is that almost every sequence in the movie becomes a riveting, often fiercely enigmatic set piece. This is Kathryn Bigelow's best film since 1987's Near Dark. It could also be the best film of 2009. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Fantastic Movie. March 16, 2010
A. Reddy (Chicago, IL USA)
While I think there were more praiseworthy movies for the best movie of the year, this is still a must see. While it's non-political which may disappoint some, there are some insights into human nature that make it a powerful movie. Additionally it appropriately examines the difficulties of the Iraqi war.
MIND BLOWING MOVIE- WORTH THE BEST PICTURE March 16, 2010
John C. Myott
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I WAS NOT SURE WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN I RENTED IT. I LIKED IT SO MUCH THAT I HAD TO PURCHASE IT FOR MY COLLECTION. THE MOVIE WAS WELL MADE AND VERY REALISTIC. FOR ANYONE WHO HAS A LOVED ONE IN THE SAND BOX IT'S A MUST SEE.
The Best film of 2009 March 15, 2010
Christopher Greffin
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Hurt Locker quite simply is one of the finest cinematic achievements in recent years. It recently won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director, along with four others, and deservingly so. It's made with a precision and craft that is unique and outstanding, and it's also very intense and entertaining.
The three main leads played by Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty are all convincing as members of a bomb disposal team at the height of violence in the Iraq war. They move from mission to mission in dangerous situations where their individual personalities and the way they deal with the trauma of war come out. Renner is particularly impressive as a bomb defusing expert who has a certain recklessness and even addiction to what he does.
The directorial achievement by Kathryn Bigelow and the script by Mark Boal are no less impressive. There has been controversy over the realism in aspects of this movie, but to me it seemed completely believable. The suspenseful action scenes are done with complete clarity giving an amazing scope which heightens the dramatic effect. The stuff in between these sequences though are just as important, giving effective character development, like when Renner's character befriends an Iraqi boy who sells DVDs.
The film is must see. I've seen it twice and will definitely watch it many more times. It works great as a drama, as a thriller, and as an action movie. Some have asked what the movie is really about. Well in a nutshell it's about the brutal reality of modern day war, and the truth that war can be a drug. It's not political and doesn't try to force some phony higher message. It's three men doing their job, and it's brilliant.
The Hurt Locker March 15, 2010
Barbara A. Mcdonald
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The most accurate portrayal of war that I have ever seen !! Keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire movie.
 The Bomb Squad March 15, 2010
James Ferguson (Vilnius, Lithuania)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hard to fault this movie as it provides a very compelling portrait of the troops in Iraq, and with the use of hand-held 16 mm cameras certainly gives you the feeling of being there. However, I found myself wondering why Bigelow chose to make this so exclusively a "boys' movie," with no significant women characters and little feeling for the Iraqis except for the empathy Sgt. Will James felt for young "Beckham."
Like Gunner Palace, The Hurt Locker is one for the soldiers serving in combat. She takes you into their world, and makes you see Iraq through their eyes. In this case, we follow a "bomb squad" as they defuse land mines around Baghdad and in one compelling scene venture into the desert where they come across some private contractors and soon find themselves under fire by insurgents.
If you are looking for more in this "war movie" you will probably be disappointed as Bigelow chose to make this movie politically non-partisan, based more or less on Mark Boal's "embedded" stories from 2004, when he was a journalist in Iraq. The movie lacks the inner struggle that is found in Chris Hedges' War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning which she references at the start of her movie with the phrase, "war is a drug."
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