Review of The Hurt Locker

Rating: 9/10 (15 July 2009)

Watching The Hurt Locker is a stunning ordeal.
It takes the viewer by the scruff of the neck -- that's why the hairs on one's neck stand up. And it embeds him or her in the middle of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad in Baghdad.
We're in an environment that is as alienating as being in outer space. When a member of the squad approaches a potentially-cataclysmic bomb, we're with him lumbering, breathing heavily, in a weighty Kevlar suit, like a man on the moon.
Or we're in the desert on foot under fire, trying to return it against an enemy we have trouble seeing.
Or we're in a jouncing vehicle, with a toy stuffed camel and a cross dangling from the mirror, in a joyless ride through hell.
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