On the edge of your seat!

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2015)

This movie is not for the faint of heart. We follow an army bomb squad in their last month until their tour ends and they can come home. And unfortunately for them if they want to come home fine, they have a lot of work to do.
This movie has a great mix of suspense and surprise. The bomb defusing scenes are extremely tense. Usually those are left for the end of the movie, when the character has to choose between the red and green wires, but here they are spread throughout the movie. Not in this case. The explosions are beautiful, and there was more than one moment in which I suddenly found out I was on the edge of my seat.
Jeremy Renner does a great job playing a bomb disposal specialist who struggles with two different forces inside of him: the stress from violence of war; and the fact that fighting a war is what he knows how to do.
Personally, I don't have any idea about what the real day-to-day life of a soldier is like and I don't know if this movie is accurate or not. But I can say that 'The Hurt Locker' has given me a new found respect for the sacrifices a soldier makes and consequences a war can have on a person's life.
Well worth the watch.