The Hurt Locker is a suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military's unrecognized heroes: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives doing one of the world's most dangerous jobs. Three members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and one another as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad—in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear—protect and save—but it's anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero. This thrilling and heart-pounding look at the psychology of bomb technicians and the effects of risk and danger on the human psyche is a fictional tale inspired by real events by journalist and screenwriter Mark Boal, who was embedded with a special bomb unit in Iraq. In Iraq, it is soldier vernacular to speak of explosions as sending you to "the hurt locker."This was a great movie. Unfortunately, we will probably never get the chance to see it in theaters since its opening very limited. The movie really took you there with the soldiers. It reminded me a lot of a tv series on FX a few years back called Over There. The characters were well acted and real. The bomb diffusing scenes had you sitting on the edge of your seat. This is one of those movies that made me feel like I was actually seeing what its like over there instead of the mindless drivel that the news pushes on us.
I'd recommend people checking this one out if they have the chance. If not, be sure to rent it when it comes out.
