"[47] Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score, gave the film an average score of 95 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". The critic noted the film's different take on the Iraq War, writing that "it confronts the fact that men often take great pleasure in war. [48], Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun Times rated the film as the best of 2009, writing, "The Hurt Locker is a great film, an intelligent film, a film shot clearly so that we know exactly who everybody is and where they are and what they're doing and why." James breaks into an Iraqi professor's house, seeking revenge for Beckham, but his search reveals nothing. Share to Facebook. Best "Critics' Choice Awards" Winning Best Picture, Oscar Best Picture Winners Made on the Cheap. It certainly did for me." The following morning, James is approached by Beckham, whom James believed was dead, and James walks by silently. "[7], For the main characters, Bigelow made a point of casting relatively unknown actors: "it underscored the tension because with the lack of familiarity also comes a sense of unpredictability. Sanborn and James borrow a gun to dispatch three attackers, while Eldridge kills a fourth. The Hurt Locker is a movie written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. [88], On August 29, 2011, the Federal Court of Canada ordered three Canadian ISPs—Bell Canada, Cogeco, and Vidéotron—to disclose the names and addresses of the subscribers whose IP addresses were suspected of having downloaded a copy of the film. Bigelow wisely chose Jeremy Renner, an unknown and unglamorous actor, for this pleasingly enigmatic role of a man who may be closer to bombs and timers than to his own comrades.The Hurt Locker (soldier slang for a real bad place) gives you immediacy and vérité soldier life, with the shaky digital camera and in-and-out zooms of the genre (the action is so good, we soon forget them, while in Brian De Palms's crude 2007 Redacted, they grate all through). Theater owners have also complained about distributors "bunching too many movies too close together". He still generally enjoyed it and called it "the best Iraq movie to date. The Hurt Locker premiered at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival before it was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, by Summit Entertainment. Navy S.E.A.L. The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise. The process took over eight months to complete. His team includes Sergeant J. T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge. It's so carefully set up you know what will happen. It was a success against its budget of $15 million. Ebert considered Renner "a leading contender for Academy Awards", writing, "His performance is not built on complex speeches but on a visceral projection of who this man is and what he feels. "[54], Amy Taubin of Film Comment described The Hurt Locker as "a structuralist war movie" and "a totally immersive, off-the-charts high-anxiety experience from beginning to end." [84][85] On May 28, 2010, it filed a complaint against 5,000 unidentified BitTorrent users in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Voltage announced its intention to demand $1,500 from each defendant to release him or her from the suit. It focuses upon Jeremy Renner as Sergeant William James who works in bomb disposal unit. Besides which the adrenalin-numbed Sergeant James independently gets himself and his two squad members, Sergeant JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), into various private and probably unnecessary severe crap storms. The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Director was given to Kathryn Bigelow, the first time the honor has gone to a woman. Accordingly, film was hand-carried on a flight by a production assistant from Amman to London. [33] It was the closing night film at Maryland Film Festival 2009, with Bigelow presenting. An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. A team leader's first priority is getting his team home in one piece. Richard Corliss of Time magazine also spoke highly of Renner's performance, calling it a highlight of the film. Impressed with cinematographer Barry Ackroyd's work on United 93 and The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Bigelow invited him to work on her film. "[79] He said he talked to more than 100 soldiers during his research. [19][22] The goal was to edit a brutally realistic portrayal of the realities of war, using minimal special effects or technical enhancement. Nominated and won for Best Picture, this award winning movie captured the attending of many film makers and audiences for boldly demoing the rough world of war and how a soldier trades with the horrors of war. The Hurt Locker Most combat troops want to get it over with and go home. The only structure is the routine one of datelines saying how many days are left in Bravo company's tour. He later issued a public apology, saying that it was "out of line and not in the spirit of the celebration of cinema that this acknowledgment is". "[7], While working with Boal in 2005 on the script, originally titled The Something Jacket, Bigelow began to do some preliminary, rough storyboards to get an idea of the specific location needed. Steward went on to say: "I was amazed that a movie so bad could get any kind of accolades from anyone. Stewart, Sara (August 24, 2009). Although the film had not recovered its budget by the time of the ceremony,[3] it won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Bigelow (the first woman to win this award), and Best Original Screenplay for Boal. Let our editors help you find what's trending and what's worth your time. The Hurt Locker was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards.[93]. The Hurt Locker (4,268) 7.5 2 h 10 min 2009 X-Ray R. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. [5], The film was shot in Jordan, within miles of the Iraqi border, to achieve Bigelow's goal of authenticity. The Hurt Locker (2008) Plot. [1], According to the Los Angeles Times, The Hurt Locker performed better than most recent dramas about Middle East conflict. James and Sanborn rescue him, but one of James' rounds hits Eldridge in the leg. The Hurt Locker By Brian Turner About this Poet Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and lived abroad in South Korea for a year before serving for seven years in the U.S. Army. We wanted to show the kinds of things that soldiers go through that you can't see on CNN, and I don't mean that in a censorship-conspiracy way. At that point, "people wanted to quit. [20], "This movie is kind of like a horror film where you're unable to see the killer," says Innis. Still, if there is any non-documentary Iraq war movie that's a must-see, this has got to be it, and it's by far the best thing the uneven but gifted Kathryn Bigelow has ever done. The screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a U.S. Army EOD team in Iraq. [13] Renner said that great care was taken to ensure the film's authenticity. After the Super 16mm film was transferred to DVcam at a lab in London, the video dailies were transported by plane back to the Middle East to be imported into the editing system. Since the film was not released in the United States until 2009, it was eligible for the Academy Awards only the following year, where it was nominated for nine Oscars. "[49] He eventually ranked it the second-best film of the decade, behind only Synecdoche, New York.[50]. Turan applauded Boal's "lean and compelling" script and said of Bigelow's direction, "Bigelow and her team bring an awesome ferocity to re-creating the unhinged mania of bomb removal in an alien, culturally unfathomable atmosphere."[53]. The movie reflects on the celebrated life of a soldier and is entitled, “war is a drug.” The soldier vividly displays war as a drug that needs to be taken by … These are all thrilling, tense. [23] At the festival, the film won the SIGNIS award,[24] the Arca Cinemagiovani Award (Arca Young Cinema Award) for "Best Film Venezia 65" (chosen by an international youth jury); the Human Rights Film Network Award; and the Venezia Cinema Award known as the "Navicella". Share to Pinterest. If you want that, watch the Military Channel, or better yet go re-enlist and get shipped back over there if want an "authentic" experience. "[77], In early March 2010, U.S. Army bomb disposal expert Master Sergeant Jeffrey Sarver filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against The Hurt Locker. After being shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was picked up for distribution in the United States by Summit Entertainment. She said of the film's editing, "Bob Murawski and Chris Innis's editing is similarly quick and nervous; the rapid changes in POV as they cut from one camera's coverage to another's, makes you feel as if you, like the characters, are under threat from all sides. (In both movies one of the few friendly forms of contact is buying and selling pirated DVD's, the US soldiers buying, the Iraqis selling, and in both this contact becomes a key plot element.) "[21], The raw footage was described as a "hodge-podge of disconnected, nausea-inducing motion that was constantly crossing the 180-degree line". The critics' consensus reads, "A well-acted, intensely shot, action filled war epic, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is thus far the best of the recent dramatizations of the Iraq War. It's still excruciatingly tense, a textbook street IED diffusion job that conveys how terrified the two backup guys are and sets up what's to come. A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945. With Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce. It lost the award for Best Actor to Crazy Heart, Best Original Score to Up, and Best Cinematography to Avatar. Temperatures averaged 120 °F (49 °C) over the 44 days of shooting. [20] Adding to the challenge, Boal's screenplay had a non-traditional, asymmetrical, episodic structure. Yet there is something original and distinctive about the film's willingness to admit that for some men (and many moviegoers) war carries an intrinsic dramatic charge. It displays combat at its best in Iraq. "But once you get off the plane you realize it's like Manhattan without the trees", she continued. An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. James is an adrenaline junkie who thrives off of the danger of disarming bombs. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 97%, based on 289 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 8.50/10. The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. Thanks to Boal's writing, Bigelow's fine directing, and an excellent cast, the episodes never seem routine or repetitive. A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker” opens with a statement presented as fact: “War is a drug.” Not for everyone, of course. [19][20] Innis stated that they "really wanted the film to retain that 'newsreel' documentary quality... Too many stage-y effects would have been distracting. Showing all 5 items Jump to: Summaries (4) Synopsis (1) Summaries. [78] Sarver said he felt "just a little bit hurt, a little bit felt left out" and cheated out of "financial participation" in the film. [83], On May 12, 2010, Voltage Pictures, the production company behind The Hurt Locker, announced that it would attempt to sue "potentially tens of thousands" of online computer users who downloaded unlicensed copies of the film using the BitTorrent and P2P networks. Tara McKelvey from The American Prospect wrote that the film is pro-U.S. Army propaganda, although it suggests it is anti-war with the opening statement: "War is a drug." In the tradition of Apocalypse Now (1979) and Come And See (1985) The Hurt Locker shows that people get hurt and killed in wars, even if they don't deserve it. Share to Twitter. The Hurt Locker opened in the top ten in the United Kingdom in 103 theaters, scoring the fourth-highest per-screen average of $3,607, ranking between G-Force and G.I. He has the cool aplomb, analytical acumen and attention to detail of a great athlete, or a master psychopath, maybe both. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. [87] The US Copyright Group (USCG) has since dropped all cases against the alleged Hurt Locker downloaders. -- using real Iraqis -- while Bigelow sticks to showing Iraqis as the American soldiers experience them -- an experience that turns out to be insane, paranoia-inducing, and scary. 58 of 93 people found this review helpful. The Hurt Locker was selected for preservation for National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2020. Use the HTML below. The film swept most critics groups awards for Best Director and Best Picture, including Chicago, Boston, and Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York' film critics group associations. The Hurt Locker is one of only five films that have won all three major U.S. critics group prizes (LA, NY, NSFC), together with Goodfellas, Schindler's List, L.A. He's Staff Sergeant William James, who's what in the genteel days of The English Patient was more commonly called a "sapper," a combat engineer who specializes in demolitions, minefields, and the like. Here’s a breakdown of everything “The Hurt Locker” gets wrong and why it is without a doubt the worst Iraq War movie of all time. Elley wrote that it was unclear to know where the drama lay: "These guys get by on old-fashioned guts and instinct rather than sissy hardware—but it's not a pure men-under-stress drama either." In any case, The Hurt Locker was worth the wait. "[7], The Hurt Locker was edited by Chris Innis and Bob Murawski. Two days later, he returned to work. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. [26] Summit Entertainment purchased the film for distribution in the United States in what was perceived as "a skittish climate for pic sales". The following weekend, beginning July 3, the film grossed $131,202 at nine theaters, averaging $14,578 per theater. The Hurt Locker was first publicly released in Italy by Warner Bros. on October 10, 2008. [69] Writing for The Huffington Post, Iraq veteran Kate Hoit said that The Hurt Locker is "Hollywood's version of the Iraq war and of the soldiers who fight it, and their version is inaccurate." Boal drew on his experience during embedded access to write the screenplay. James and Sanborn's unit is called to another mission in their last two days of their rotation. When they are assigned to destroy explosives, James returns to the detonation site to pick up his gloves. The UK DVD and Blu-ray have no commentary. Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The sniper stand-off. Why does Eldridge keep dry-firing his rifle and saying, "He's dead (click), he's alive! "The Hurt Locker" is a classic American war film, an Academy Award winner, and an entertaining tour de force that wowed civilian audiences when it hit theaters in 2008. Keyword: civilian audiences. [5] Bigelow cast Renner based on his work in Dahmer, a film about Jeffrey Dahmer, the notorious serial killer whose victims were boys. US war veteran loses case against makers of best picture Oscar-winner, but insists film is based on him "[52] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the performances of Renner, Mackie, and Geraghty would raise their profiles considerably, and said their characters reveal their "unlooked-for aspects," such as Renner's character being playful with an Iraqi boy. In May 2009, it was the Closing Night selection for Maryland Film Festival. The Hurt Locker consists of a series of bomb threats that the team have to overcome. [10][11] The producer Greg Shapiro spoke about security concerns of filming in Jordan, "It was interesting telling people we were going to make the movie in Jordan because the first question everybody asked was about the security situation here. And in this way, the full impact of the Iraq war—at least as it was fought in 2004—becomes clear: American soldiers shot at Iraqi civilians even when, for example, they just happened to be holding a cell phone and standing near an IED." Describing the experience of filming in Jordan in the summer, he said, "It was so desperately hot, and we were so easily agitated. [92] The film won six awards at the BAFTAs held on February 21, 2010, including Best Film and Best Director for Bigelow. "[54] He concluded, "This unapologetic celebration of a testosterone-fuelled lust for war may gall. He starts another tour of duty, serving with Delta Company, a U.S. Army EOD unit on its 365-day rotation. Share to Reddit. We tried doing FTP downloads, but at the time, the facilities in Jordan simply couldn't handle it. There is also a horrifying body bomb; a complicated and lethal car bomb in front of a UN building; a suicide bomber who has a change of heart (as in Hany Abu-Assad's 2005 Paradise Now); and a hairy firefight with snipers (and a somewhat obtrusive cameo by Ralph Fiennes) out in the desert. "Sometimes the distributors goof up," said a film buyer for one theater. The film follows an Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by insurgents and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat, which is intolerable to some and addictive to others. James' team has a tense encounter with their leader, who reveals they are private military contractors and British mercenaries. Hurt locker comes from US military slang. The Hurt Locker. Corliss summarized, "The Hurt Locker is a near-perfect movie about men in war, men at work. [40] But that movie was like doing a play. The Hurt Locker is based on accounts of Mark Boal, a freelance journalist who was embedded with an American bomb squad in the war in Iraq for two weeks in 2004. "[80] It dates back to the Vietnam War where it was one of several phrases meaning "in trouble or at a disadvantage; in bad shape. "[73], A review published March 8, 2010, in the Air Force Times[74] cited overall negative reviews from bomb experts in Iraq attached to the 4th Brigade, 1st Armored Division, quoting a bomb disposal team leader who called the film's portrayal of a bomb expert "grossly exaggerated and not appropriate," and describing the lead character as "more of a run and gun cowboy type … exactly the kind of person that we're not looking for." 119 wins & 130 nominations. The film outperformed all other Iraq-war-themed films such as In the Valley of Elah (2007), Stop-Loss (2008) and Afghanistan-themed Lions for Lambs (2007).[38]. 160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. [14] In a scene in which his character carries a dead Iraqi boy, Renner fell down some stairs and twisted his ankle, which delayed filming because he could not walk. Description. In the 115-degree Iraqi heat, it must feel like a movable dungeon: A semi-mobile pressure cooker that slowly bakes you from the inside out. ", when talking to the Army psychologist. Guy Westwell of Sight & Sound wrote that the cinematographer Barry Ackroyd provided "sharp handheld coverage" and that Paul N.J. Ottosson's sound design "uses the barely perceptible ringing of tinnitus to amp up the tension. Was this review helpful to you? Available on. We can cover more ground that way. It also ranked on more film critics' top 10 lists than any other film of 2009. [19][20] The two editors worked with almost 200 hours of footage from the multiple hand-held cameras in use during the shoot. In discussion, she found that her cast and crew shared stereotypes of the region from American culture. These telegraphed macho conflicts, essential Bigelow, work because the jobs being done are all so convincingly and intensely depicted.This is a great movie but it leaves you empty. James challenges him to a game of football and takes a liking to him. After they split up, insurgents capture Eldridge. The eye sees differently than the lens, but with multiple focal lengths and a muscular editorial style, the lens can give you that microcosm/macrocosm perspective and that contributes to the feeling of total immersion. [96], Distribution: Independent film print shortage, Goodwin, Christopher (August 16, 2009). Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. If war is a drug, this movie could give you a contact high. He said of the film's goal, "The idea is that it's the first movie about the Iraq War that purports to show the experience of the soldiers. He plays the innocent man used as a suicide bomber at the film's end. Need some help finding the best things to watch on Netflix? "[18], In staging the film's action sequences, Bigelow did not want to lose a sense of the geography and used multiple cameras to allow her to "look at any particular set-piece from every possible perspective. [7], Principal photography began in July 2007 in Jordan and Kuwait. They feel lost. [4] Director Bigelow was familiar with Boal's work before his experiences, having adapted one of his Playboy articles as the short-lived television series The Inside in 2002. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind. "[61], John Pilger, journalist and documentarian, criticized the film in the New Statesman, writing that it "offers a vicarious thrill via yet another standard-issue psychopath high on violence in somebody else's country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion. The film follows an Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by insurgents and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat. [27], In the rest of 2008, The Hurt Locker screened at the 3rd Zurich Film Festival,[28] the 37th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, the 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival,[29] the 5th Dubai International Film Festival, and the 12th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. [43], According to an article in the Springfield, Illinois State Journal-Register, as of August 2009, there was a shortage of film prints of The Hurt Locker, as well as other hit independent films such as Food, Inc.[44] Distributors told theater owners that they would have to wait weeks or months past the initial U.S. release date to get the few available prints that were already in distribution. [44][45] It is also thought that independent film distributors are trying to cut their losses on prints by recycling them. There was no traditional "villain", and tension was derived from the characters' internal conflicts and the suspense from the explosives and snipers. Obviously Bigelow also had a much bigger budget, the better to provide a wealth of spectacular explosions, essential (or justified anyway) since this is about a small team of three men whose main (but by no means only) job is to find and defuse improvised explosive devices (IED's), the DIY but sometimes highly ingenious signature weapons of the Iraqi insurgency. "[6] Bigelow was fascinated with exploring "the psychology behind the type of soldier who volunteers for this particular conflict and then, because of [their] aptitude, is chosen and given the opportunity to go into bomb disarmament and goes toward what everybody else is running from. We really looked out for each other, and it was a great experience. "[72], Troy Steward, another combat veteran, wrote on the blog Bouhammer that while the film accurately depicted the scale of bomb violence and the relations between Iraqis and troops, "just about everything else wasn't realistic." It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. "[7] Renner's character, Sergeant First Class William James, is a composite character, with qualities based on individuals whom screenwriter Boal knew when embedded with the bomb squad. The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. [64], The Hurt Locker was listed on many critics' top ten lists. [8], Tony Mark recalled the armorer David Fencl's finishing a 12-hour day. The Hurt Locker, despite claims about its "apolitical" or "non-partisan" character, proves in its own unsavory fashion to be a pro-war and pro-imperialist film. It’s all on Hulu. "[58], Derek Elley of Variety found The Hurt Locker to be "gripping" as a thriller but felt that the film was weakened by, "its fuzzy (and hardly original) psychology." The whole journey would take anywhere from three days to a week and was described by Innis as the "modern-day equivalent of shipping via donkey cart. The street is surrounded with buildings and people and deep in unknowns. Let’s start with the suit. It’s immensely disrespectful to the many officers who have lost their lives. William James, who has a terrifyingly dangerous job, addresses it like a daily pleasure. She wanted to make the film as authentic as possible and "put the audience into the Humvee, into a boots-on-the-ground experience. James tries to cut off the locks to remove the vest, but there are too many of them. ", Bigelow's choice to film in the Kingdom met some resistance. James is often approached by an Iraqi youth nicknamed "Beckham", attempting to sell DVDs. From coast to coast, the recent discussions about The Hurt Locker illustrate the audience’s varying and conflicting needs regarding works of fiction. The filmmakers had scouted for locations in Morocco, but Bigelow felt its cities did not resemble Baghdad. [38] [46], The Hurt Locker received widespread acclaim, with Renner's performance receiving praise from critics. There's immediate intense conflict between Eldridge, an elegant, chiseled black man with extensive Intelligence experience, and the puffy-cheeked James whom Eldridge calls "redneck trailer trash" straight off to his face. During the evacuation, Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge, the camp's psychiatrist and a friend of Eldridge, is killed in an explosion; Eldridge blames himself for his death. The Hurt Locker 2008 720p Br Rip X 264 YIFY HD Movies Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. [30] In 2009, The Hurt Locker screened at the Göteborg International Film Festival,[31] the 10th Film Comment Selects festival,[32] and the South by Southwest film festival. An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. She described the film as being more accurate than other recently released war films but expressed concerns that several errors—among them wrong uniforms, lack of radio communication, or misbehavior of the soldiers—would prevent service members from enjoying the film. [20], Innis spent the first eight weeks editing the film on location in Jordan, before returning to Los Angeles, where Murawski joined her. The Hurt Locker was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, with a limited release at four theaters in Los Angeles and New York City. It was a great experience to be there."[17]. [8] In addition to the burden of the heat, the bomb suit he had to wear all day weighed 80–100 lb (36–45 kg). Confidential, and The Social Network. But the hero of this film, Staff Sgt. What makes the film really shine, however, is its anti-war messages. 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