The Hurt Locker
Engaging film - Crazy
This is a story of elite soldiers that have the difficult task of disarming bombs in the heat of combat. A new Sergeant James takes over the disposal team but his fellow soldiers don't like his cavalier methods. James seems indifferent to death he plunges his fellow colleagues into conflict with him.
This is a first rate action thriller that captures urban warfare in Iraq. Its portrays the tensions between the soldiers as they go about their terrifying grind of defusing bombs day after day.
Well worth a look.
Review published on the 21 October 2009 12:36
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