Incredible

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2015)

I went into the movie a little worried. Having watched it when I was younger and falling asleep maybe twenty minutes in I wondered if it would actually be worth it. I'm happy to say that it was absolutely fantastic.
The Hurt Locker is a different kind of war movie. It's not completely focused on the fighting, it's focused on a lot of the behind-the- scenes stuff, primarily disarming bombs. Although there is still shooting and the such, bombs are the primary focus. Already the idea is something that we don't see a lot in war movies, which is always a good thing.
The characters are fantastic. With there only being three major characters and an over 2 hour run-time, you certainly get to the know them. They all feel human, which isn't something we see in movies a lot these days. During the beginning of the movie I was just hoping that they wouldn't pull the whole 'kill all the main characters off at the end' gimmick that is far too common in war movies, but as the movie progressed I could certainly see some potential major deaths coming, and I was much more willing to accept it than I would be in other war movies.
The movie, surprisingly, manages to be funny. One of the characters in particular is like this, and it adds to the whole feel of them being human. In other movies like this it seems like everyone's dead serious all the time, but I know that if I were in some of these situations I'd try to crack a joke here and there, and that's what the characters did.
My only complaint was that my blu-ray copy was somehow slightly scratched so it skipped about a 30 seconds of the movie twice. That's no fault of the content though, just of those who used it before me.
Overall The Hurt Locker is fantastic. It's rare to come across movies like this, where the greatness just completely catches us off guard. There's barely anything that I didn't like about this movie, and in the end I would recommend it to everyone. It's absolutely fantastic.