Oscar Winning film? No.-Theatrical Documentary? Yes.

Rating: 6/10 (14 March 2010)

First of all i was extremely let down by this film. I had never heard of The Hurt Locker before I watched the Academy Awards, so when I saw that it won best picture of the year I had to see it. I was hoping for another war movie like Black Hawk Down with a lot of action of drama but what I got was basically a documentary. The film seemed that it lacked a purpose, their only goal throughout the entire movie was to stay alive and that's all; there was no 'hunt' for the people responsible for any of the bombings, except near the end after they went looking for the people responsible for the suicide bombing. The dialogue/script gave no insight to the characters at all, you never really got to know the characters and feel what they were going through. The screenplay was quite dull as well or just not very complicated unlike Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds. How this film won best screenplay written directly for the screen or best picture of the year, I don't know. If you ask me it should have gone to Inglorious Basterds. Overall, the movie was dull, boring, had a lack of point or direction and i came out feeling like i had just watched a Documentary, BIG disappointment.