So many miss the point

Rating: 9/10 (20 February 2010)

The front page review, calling this a "terrible war film" completely misses the point. "The Hurt Locker" has no obligation to be completely realistic, no more so than "Avatar", or "Inglourious Basterds".
Its only obligation is to tell a good story on screen. That it does wonderfully. It's one of the most suspenseful films made in the last few years. It contains some excellent performances.
It's tight, tense,and a damn good film. People who criticize it for its factual inaccuracies shouldn't judge movies, because they are judging art on a completely non-artistic terms. If that was how we judged movies, then every single biopic ever made would, by default, be bad. I shudder to think of a world where movies are judged, not by the quality of their storytelling, but by how well its characters shoot a rifle.