What were they thinking?

Rating: 3/10 (7 April 2010)

The title of this post is sufficient enough to sum up my feelings on this movie, which was taken so well by the Academy and the rest of America. What was the director of this movie thinking, what was the writer of this movie thinking, and most importantly, what was the academy thinking? Six Oscars? Really? Just from watching the first five minutes, anybody can tell that it is a painfully slow and poorly paced story, with a plot that seems to have no cohesion whatsoever. The characters are also excruciatingly shallow. Why should I care about the well-being of these soldiers if I don't know anything about them? And if I don't care about any of these characters, then why am I watching the movie? Sadly, this is a question I asked myself too frequently during the 130 minute running time. That may not sound unreasonably long for a movie of this nature either, but in The Hurt Locker, where the plot just seems like an assortment of random, assorted tasks haphazardly edited together, you will be counting down the minutes until you can do something other than watching this disgustingly overrated "movie."