A Modern day war movie classic

Rating: 10/10 (23 October 2014)

Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is one of the best war movies ever made in my opinion along with well done war films such as Patton (1970), The Deer Hunter (1978), Platoon (1986), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Black Hawk Down (2001). The movie stars Jeremy Renner (in a performance that got him his first Best Actor Oscar nomination.) as Sergeant 1st class William James a man who was recently assigned as a bomb technician as a replacement after the death of Staff Sergeant Matt Thompson (played by Guy Pearce). The direction by Bigelow is the strongest direction for a war movie since that of watching both Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, and Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), and as well as the writing by both Bigelow as well as co-writer and co- producer Mark Boal which was truly brilliant, and also because of the suspenseful and patriotic music. There are many things I do love about this movie beside the writing, the music, and as well as the direction for the film, but also I loved the supporting cast, the cinematography, the characters are very interesting, and even acting is powerful.