Great realistic modern war experience

Rating: 8/10 (2 September 2010)

If you are looking for this big action heavy war film this is not it. As far as I know(I have no experience of war luckily) it feels like a really believable representation of life in a modern war. The story follows a group of soldiers whose mission is disarming bombs. But the plot is not actually the point in this. Rather it wants to shows you what war life is like and how people may be affected by it. And the film really succeeds. I was quickly drawn in. Many films that attempts to show realistic presentations often become slow moving and even boring. The Hurt Locker brilliantly avoids this, both being a great thrilling war movie and also managing to say something to the viewer. The visuals are great and documentary style that really fits the tone and message. The action is greatly done in a kind of bleak toned down way. Done in with the same feel as the tone of the story is. The acting is really god. For a movie that focuses on the consequence on the soldiers the acting is essential. Sad, exciting, thrilling and always moving. It may be the kind of movie that falls into the category great movies you only watch once but it is a movie you should see once.