OK but Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (27 April 2011)

I was exited to see this movie. It won an Academy Award for Best Picture and everyone was telling me how great it was. I watched the movie and it was an OK movie but extremely overrated. I honestly think that because we are currently in war people gravitated towards it and gave it praise it didn't deserve.Although I commend our troops a movie and real life are two different things. There have been so many war movies made, that you must come with a different angle to engage people. This movie seems very similar to Full Metal Jacket but not as good.
The acting was not even that great in my opinion. It was more adrenaline than acting. It's almost like taking some men who play football and putting them in a movie about war.
Honestly, Inglourious Basterds should of won Best Picture hands down. Tarantino was robbed. Inglourious Basterds was a type of movie that I have never seen before. From the plot to the acting were all superb. Tarantino went as far as to have actors speak in foreign languages to give the movie real authenticity. The Academy Awards are gonna have to vote with their heads and not their hearts. Pick the movie that's the best. But Hurt Locker was an good movie that can be watched once.