This movie was amateur and terrible and doesn't deserve the hype.

Rating: 3/10 (25 January 2010)

When i first read about the hurt locker and seen the reviews it was getting, i was excited to see it. I have seen enough movies to know what ones are good and bad, and the Hurt locker was clearly bad. I don't understand why its getting such good reviews and being nominated for golden globes and other awards. I even watched it twice to make sure that i wasn't just imagining things, this movie is getting a free pass and does not deserve it. I originally gave this film a 6/10 but changed it to a 3/10 because the reviews have bugged me so much. The Hurt locker is so far fetched and is not realistic, There are so many flaws in the movie that it just gets dumb. The acting in it was not that demanding for the actors and they still couldn't pull it off (Jeremy Renner being nominated for best actor!!!!????!!!). The cinematography was amateur, I didn't care for the shaky cam at all, the slow mo explosion scene at the beginning that they felt to show like ten times from different angles looked right out of a lame 80's movie. I think while you are watching a good movie you should care about what happens to the characters, but in this, they could have killed off all the main characters and replaced them 3 quarters of the way through the movie and i wouldn't have cared at all. The movie feels a lot longer then it is because its so boring and makes you wanna leave or turn it off. and what a douche name for such a bad movie- The hurt locker, it doesn't deserve such an intense name. Whats with the 3 man EOD Rambo team that does everything, They were sniping, clearing buildings, going off in the middle of the night by themselves without permission and fighting their own war, while in the process shoot their own guy by accident and don't get in any trouble for that. There are several things in the movie that the army and especially EOD's just don't do. The sniping scene was ridiculous especially considering EOD's aren't trained as snipers, first off why are they out in the middle of the dessert unescorted, but then they sit there looking at this building after they shot the guy, for hours, like what are they doing??. Another scene when they get called in, there's a bomb in a car, and some Iraqi shoots the gas tank and the vehicle ignites, now first off i am pretty sure they proved on Myth-busters that you cant blow up a gas tank by shooting it, and why didn't the Iraqi shoot at the actual soldiers, and why didn't the car being fully engulfed in flames set off the bombs inside of it, and why did they put it out with fire extinguishers knowing that it was full of bombs. And what was with Jerremy Renner and that Iraqi kid, and him getting revenge for the kids death by going into Baghdad in the middle of the night and breaking in to someones house, changes his mind or something then walks back to the base and of course doesn't get into any trouble at all. I didn't care for any of the characters, Jeremy Renners was supposed to be like a weird adrenaline junkie who got a thrill out of disarming bombs(???) and what was with that annoying wuss that was on their squad. this movie felt like a amateur-right out of film and acting school movie. Its funny cause i didn't even mind this movie that much when I first seen it, but seeing all the hype and all the stupid reviews its been getting, its been pissing me off more and more, so it feels good to write all this. There are so many better movies than this that didn't get the hype or the reviews this ones getting, this is an insult to the film industry and to all the great film makers who actually deserve it. By the way I am not in the army and i am only seventeen but it doesn't take a soldier or a major film buff to notice all the flaws that were in it. And to all the people that gave this film good reviews, F-you, and go watch more movies cause you don't know what your talking about-Gripping and ground breaking...F-that. LOL its to bad you can't use bad language in these reviews cause my original copy of this review had a bunch in it.