Hurt Locker Hurts To Watch ...

Rating: 1/10 (25 May 2010)

I finally watched Hurt Locker this weekend. Unbelievable. This movie won Best Picture? Better than Avatar? Are you kidding me? Let's forget for one second that Avatar out grossed on a global scale The Hurt Locker by a gazillion to one. Those numbers usually are a harbinger to which is the most popular flick. The U.S military industrial complex obviously held Hollywood hostage on this one.
The Hurt Locker is nothing more than a slapped-together documentary or a 90-minutes-too-long, recruitment public service announcement for the U.S. Army. The most telling, revealing moment? Probably when Sanborn decides that he wants to go back home and have a child with his wife. Wow. Nice build up with a few bombs to help nudge along that epiphany.
Besides the "be all you can be" aspect ... did I say PSA? ... the Oscar voters piled on James Cameron, sticking knives with his ex-wife's name on them in his back. Come to think of it, this was a better story line than Hurt Locker.
What memorable mark, if any, did James Cameron's ex leave on this film? The 850-yards apart sniper fire scene could've been lifted from CNN footage following 9/11. How can the American sniper miss by five feet and then hit a moving target from that distance? James Cameron cemented his fame in movie annals with Avatar. His ex tried playing God with her hit-the-moving-target shot ... and failed miserably.
The funny thing is, whatever movie James Cameron's ex directs next does not really have to fare well to better the Hurt Locker. Next time, just leave the hurt in the locker.