Hurt Locker: The Big Bang Theory

Rating: 6/10 (29 November 2010)

I tend to avoid films that are hyped. Hurt Locker was in that in category. The problem is a film needs to be seen in a cinema for it to be truly effective and often the gloss can be lost by watching the 'main event' on your TV at home, even with a cinema system.
So, I thought, maybe this why Hurt Locker is, well, hurting. Because I am watching it on my TV screen, of not insignificant size. The audio will not be as 'full on' as in a cinema, it never is. But other 'great' films that I have watched at home have still broken out from their restrictive confines and done the business in terms of entertainment and making me aware of their greatness or similar.
Hurt Locker is a an average film.
In fact, in my view, Hurt Locker is the cinematic re-make of 'HBO's' 'Generation Kill'. Admittedly Generation Kill had three times as long to tell its story, but the main thing was it had a story. Hurt Locker is a cold plot less experience. A story/film should, generally, have a beginning, a middle and an end, unless it a twee art house piece of fluff.
Hurt Locker's main story centres around SFC William James who inherits the role of bomb master when his predecessor gets killed in action. James arrives, drinks, defuses bombs, drinks, has man fights, drinks, goes home to a life he is disenchanted with and returns to Iraq to defuse more bombs. It's as simple as that. It won the Oscar for Best Screenplay !!! And they say there is no jingoism in 'The Academy'.
I might pick Hurt Locker up again in the future and re-assess. Somehow I don't think it will change my view.
6/10.