Booze Revooze (A Drinker's Skewed View): Explosive

Rating: 8/10 (24 October 2009)

The Hurt Locker is intense from the instant the curtain rises. The first scene primes you with energy that's explosive for the duration. Magnificently directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the movie never really sinks into those "War Is Hell" clichés, at least not very often, and also stays away from the politics of the Iraq conflict. The acting is as realistic as the action, so i guess the only thing that really left a bad taste in my mouth was a lack of direction.
You know how you go to the bar and drink until something happens 'cause if you drink long enough something surely will? Not here. The flick begins full throttle so has nowhere to go from there and i eventually got bored of the bomb disarming scenes. If that's the story's point, that war is repetitive, the characters should have been more blasé than they were at the the end.
When all is said and done, despite this solitary dud, Kathryn Bigelow's obvious talent as a director makes The Hurt Locker a blast.