Review of The Hurt Locker (2008) by Hannah M — 18 Jul 2012
The Hurt Locker has a few very, very good scenes, scenes I haven't seen before or that were done in an interesting, original way. But those were all in the final 45 minutes, and there were far more long, uninteresting combat scenes where I had to fight VERY hard to stay focused on the story.
A large part of this is a genre prejudice, I admit, but war movies have overcome that before and been very touching for me (Saving Private Ryan being the most recent example). The Hurt Locker just doesn't offer enough, certainly not to justify it as a Best Picture winner.
This review of The Hurt Locker (2008) was written by Hannah M on 18 Jul 2012.
The Hurt Locker has generally received very positive reviews.
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