Nothing in here to like

Rating: 2/10 (31 March 2012)

It's beyond me how this movie was even nominated for any of the many many awards it ended up winning.
There are so many things wrong with this film that it's difficult to put down in words.
One of the bigger blunders would be the character writing. Where's our protagonist, the "hero", the one we're supposed to identify with and care about? Not a single human being in this movie is likable. They range from dead-weight bystanders to intensely annoying main characters whom you wish to just die and go away. I think the most interesting and likable character in this film would be the suit that the bomb guys put on. That's actually pretty nice, and it seems to be the most intelligent one of the bunch as well.
The actual protagonist is portrayed as a severely unintelligent, selfish and self-serving bastard who is so careless and stupid that in real life he would more likely have killed himself trying to tie his shoelaces than supposedly having successfully disarmed 800-and-some bombs in OED and lived to tell about it.
It's pathetically obvious what the movie tries to tell us, but it's so poorly written, directed, and acted out, that the points it ultimately brings across is that we should fear the bomb disarmers rather than the bomb makers. The bomb makers, apparently, make the most retarded bombs that they either choose not to blow up or try blow up in the most inconvenient way at the least fortunate (for the bomb maker) moment in the most obvious and public way possible. The bomb disarmers, however, will try their hardest to get as many people in the line of shrapnel fire and to make everything go as wrong as possible.
This movie is a perfect example of how bad script writers will force dramatic scenarios into existence without feeling any need to justify the events happening or even create the logical chain that should lead the story to them.
Ah, can't stomach writing more about this. Just don't watch it, it's ignorant, annoying, unrealistic, and a terrible waste of time and money.