An Adrenaline Junkie's Story

Rating: 8/10 (28 November 2018)

This is a war movie and not a documentary. No movie ever could give us a real "impression" on war - you don't get the smell and the bullets and shells are not deadly to you, the audience, and even not for the actors..
The Hurt Locker is a fine action movie with a devil daring and somehow broken "hero", and as it tries to give us some "flavor" of the war in Iraq, or the war on terror, and it does not try to be big on anti-war-propaganda (that*s more between the lines).
If you want a suspenseful movie that entertains you, The Hurt Locker is for you: you get a well done production, good acting and some good action scenes. But if you want a somehow super-deep philosophical meditation on war, this one is not made for you.
Good - if you like movies like American Sniper, Green Zone, The Wall and Jarhead and the like.