Did It Suck Movie Reviews

Archive for October, 2008

Review:    4 Stars     Rated:     R

Don’t touch that dial, you might blown up!   The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.

The Hurt Locker, Staring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty as members of a U.S. Army EOD unit in Iraq . We follow their tour together as they contend with defusing bombs, the threat of insurgency, and the tension that develops among them. -wiki

For the most part the camera work in this movie was filmed in a style called Cinéma vérité, aka Shaky-Cam.  Even with this style of camera work I found the movie quite tolerable to watch.  The film was not overly gory or violent, but the realism in some scenes definitely called for the ‘R’ rating.  This is a must see movie in or out of the theatre.  It’s intense, well acted, and has a good solid pace so it’s Worth a Ticket in my book.

- Dan Kersey