The Best Film of 2009. 3rd Best of the Decade.

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2010)

If you don't like this film then it's hard to imagine you have ANY appreciation of what makes a good film at all. You must be very, very, very stupid. When looking at the greatest war movies ever made, The Hurt Locker is honestly up there with Apocalypse Now. It has the smarts to know that the great war films are not those that preach to the converted about how war is wrong, it simply sends the audience through one of the most thrilling, edge of your seat, blindingly intense films ever made. The action is absolutely spectacular, the acting is brilliant (why Jeremy Renner isn't a bigger star just shows the faults in Hollywood today), and the direction by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Near Dark) is exceptional. If you have any sense you'll get this film the moment if comes out on DVD and give yourself the gift of watching what is quite easily the best film of 2009. And I haven't even mentioned the scene with the padlocks.