The Hurt Locker (2008): Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. (7.8)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty
Realistic, so they say, depiction of the Iraq war theater. But, is the "follow the chain of command," "obey the superior's orders" etc. of the the military is completely ignored in this unit. If every unit functioned like that there wouldn't be a military, so that aspect (a major part of the theme of the movie) is completely ignored. If you understand that this isn't a documentary, but a movie (ie: entertainment? made for commercial purposes, to make money?) then, yeah, it is a thrilling and edge-of-your-seat movie. Hight marks for good acting and set, etc. My rating: 7.0
