I finally saw THE HURT LOCKER and it wasn't that great.

Rating: 4/10 (5 January 2011)

A congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for being the first lady film director to win an Oscar for best director, although after I saw HURT LOCKER after waiting so long for it, I was surprised to discover that someone like me who doesn't know a lot about the military could actually notice something off about the way the army guys in this film operate and this is just my take I'm not a military expert.
1. In the very first scene after the guy that disarms the bombs suits up and starts walking away, his team stays behind to cover him but at one point this guy is so far away from his team you don't see anyone covering him from anywhere and you can clearly see Arabs in close enough proximity to take the bomb guy out with a pistol.
2. The scene where our lead character who replaces the bomb guy who was killed in the explosion before almost gets hit by a car is clearly an incident that could've been avoided, because you could see the car clearly speeding down the road and the soldiers who were there didn't even try to stop it because they just popped out after the car drove past even though they had enough time to react when the car came down the road, so our bomb guy is pretty much an open target every time he leaves he's team because all the soldiers are slow, lucky for him having a gun.
3. The sniper scene everyone talks about, the fact that bomb experts suddenly became trained snipers was actually a load of bull, I didn't buy that for a second because I know that snipers and bomb experts are given different training.
After all that the film was an absolute snooze fest, the plot didn't really go anywhere it just floated around and made 2 hours feel like 2 years, the only good things were the explosions and the acting was okay but for something that got the best picture award it was really not that good and is severely over hyped, it also doesn't hold a candle to your classic war films.
With all due respect to Kathryn Bigelow, I thought that NEAR DARK, POINT BREAK and STRANGE DAYS were all good films but this one honestly wasn't.