THIS won Best Film? NO WAY! Academy's gone whack.

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2010)

I didn't get it. I was expecting this emotional tour-de-force type of war drama, focusing in on the bomb diffuser guys. Instead, we have this cold, kind of detached, blazé kind of narrative that doesn't get deep enough or emotional enough to really involve the viewer. It certainly left no real impression on me, I practically had forgotten about it 5 minutes after I'd seen it. Really, it doesn't do enough. They employed this shaky "24" style hand-held camera movement, rather haphazard and meaningless in so many parts, unnecessary, even, because the emotional impact of a certain scene is killed due to the invasive feeling of this shaky camera in the character's faces, because it feels like a documentary a lot of the times, and it shouldn't. It's really not worth wasting your time on this film. I can't believe it won Best Film.