The Hurt Locker concerns a squad of US Bomb Disposal Soldiers in Iraq who are winding down their tour of duty, but when their CO is killed in a bomb explosion, they get a new one who is a little addicted to his job.
This movie is a tough film to review as it plays on the emotions of the audience watching it; some scenes drip with heart stopping tension which gets to a point where you can't watch the events on screen as you're waiting for the bomb to go off and blow everyone to kingdom come, but while director Kathryn Bigelow does a good job with the material, the material itself borders on predictability as you can't help but think 'they're all gonna die', probably the only other saving grace of this film is Jeremy Renner as the mad CO, his scenes play totally straight and are full of conviction as a man who is totally addicted to what he does and outside of that, is a complete wreck.
But does that save the film as a whole, no it doesn't as the borderline predictability with the characters got on my nerves one too many times, so it only gets a 2 and a half out of 5.
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