So, Tuesday Night is Film Night is shifted a day early, so what could be better than spending a wet Bank Holiday Monday watching;
The Hurt Locker.
Films that are in the top 500 films on IMDB or are multi Oscar winners, are so for one very good reason.
They are clearly very good films.
The Hurt Locker is no exception. It is a gritty, realistic, thrilling, modern day war drama. Following the unfolding story of Delta Company, an elite bomb disposal squad, working on the streets of war torn Iraq, where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be harbouring a bomb.
Brilliantly directed by Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker centres on a trio of bomb disposal specialists; Sergeant First Class William James (Jeremy Renner), Sergeant JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty).
The film provides a supreme, tense and gripping piece of drama. It grabs your attention from the stunning opening scene, which perfectly gets across the dangers faced by the specialist bomb disposal squad, you then follow them throughout the 131 minutes of real gripping drama, which will have you literally on the edge of your seats.
If there was any criticism, it would be the stereotypical roles played by the three main characters. William James is the brilliant bomb disposal guy, but is a total maverick. Sanborn, is the level headed one, always there for his team. And Eldridge is the scared one, frightened of his own shadow. These are the characters you see in most war films, so from that perspective it is slightly formulaic in approach, but do not let this put you off.
The Hurt Locker explores deeply the drama and trauma of modern day insurgent warfare.
It is a film not to be missed.
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