Step into the kill zone.

Rating: 8/10 (20 February 2010)

This war drama is fictional, but fact-based. The setting is Baghdad, where an EOD(Explosive Ordnance Disposal)team, led by Staff Sergeant William James(Jeremy Renner), goes about work making roads safer for Americans and Iraqis...under the constant threat of sharp-shooting snipers. There is no room for error in this line of work, but James goes about his work like a man with ice water veins and his hair on fire. Bomb technicians are a soldier of a different breed. It doesn't hurt to be fearless and a bit ruthless. Tense with an adrenaline rush. Kudos to director Kathryn Bigelow. Also in the cast: Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pierce, Anthony Mackie, Evangeline Lilly and David Morse.