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  Review by sindhu ★★★½ 14

  i'm going to hell for saying this but with the way the cinematography was, this film honestly felt like The Office: War Edition sometimes

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 1

  "i'm just... i'm looking for the people responsible"

  good luck

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  Review by Florin Scanlon ★★★★★ 1

  Sure, there's stuff here that bugs me a bit. It mostly has to do with reckless behavior and unrealistic decisions during missions that wouldn't happen in real life in the Iraq war, or any other war for that matter. But that's not the point of this film. This is not a documentary. What this movie sets out to do is take us in the heat, dust and chaos of warfare, showing the effect war has on different persons and providing us with an understanding of what war means for these persons. The basic characterization of the three main characters is apparently clunky. One's insecure, one's by the book and one's off the hook. That's all we're shown at first. But…

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  Review by 𝚮𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖉𝖊 ❤️‍🔥 ★★★ 28

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  me: oh hai Guy Pearce
  Guy Pearce: 💣💥💨
  me: 😣
  me: oh hai Ralph Fiennes
  Ralph Fiennes: 🔫🩸💨
  me: 😧

  The review which mentions this is filmed like The Office is 100% right. I'm just gonna pretend Bigelow won that Oscar for Strange Days.

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  Review by Tentin Quarantino ☭ ★ 18

  Best film of 2009?

  Hardly. It's alright, but didn't show me anything I haven't seen in a dozen war films before. I wish the focus was more on the defusing of bombs, because everything else that happened made me sleepy.

  Best directed film of 2009?

  Not at all. Kathryn Bigelow is a damn good director, but this is not even in the running for her best work. Shot in the same faux-documentarian style with a washed-out color palette and substantial grain, it looks like every other film about a modern war. Literally. I'm starting to have a hard time telling them apart. I said to myself "that's a cool shot" a bunch of times, but what does it say about…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★½ 13

  Action! - Female 4 Front: The Bigelow's Kinetic Alphas

  Although it is far from the most outstanding war picture, this little film unquestionably marks a turning point in history and a renaissance for its filmmaker. Not only did it beat the unstoppable James Cameron with what was then a work that reshaped cinema and popular culture in many ways, but its director (and ex-wife of Jamie boy) Kathryn Bigelow became the first female filmmaker to win the prized Oscar for Best Director. However, that's not all, as the movie marks Bigelow back to form after two equally disappointing films, not to mention a decade of three films that flopped terribly at the box office, as I wrote in my earlier…

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★★ 5

  Winner of 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, The Hurt Locker is a highly gripping, intensely thrilling & bone-chillingly suspenseful war drama that's expertly crafted, masterly composed & skilfully narrated from start to finish and, with its firm grip on the very element of suspense, delivers an experience that's destined to keep the viewers on the edge of their seats throughout its runtime.

  Set during the Iraq War, the story of The Hurt Locker follows a bomb disposal squad that is assigned a new team leader after their previous boss is killed during one of their operations. The plot covers the relationship between the team members as the two subordinates soon find themselves at odds with the new guy for his maverick…

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  Review by john ★★ 2

  what a snooze fest. every character is unlikeable. the camera work is obnoxious. the only saving grace of this thing is the bomb diffusing scenes. but you're more than welcome to watch this if you want to see Jeremy Renner play himself for two hours.

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  Review by kennedy ★★★ 3

  she's not even in this movie and yet all the way through i just thought about jessica chastain

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  Review by Sammie ★★★★

  Hawkeye is kind of a dick in this movie

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  Review by Cormac 👑 ★★★★ 29

  Kathryn Bigelow has long been one of American cinemas finest depictors of masculinity. From the heightened machismo of Point Break and Strange Days to the fetishised virility of Near Dark and Blue Steel, she’s always held a fine tuned- if cartoonish- microscope to the male psyche and all that makes us tick. Maybe it’s her unique perspective that gives her an ear to the finespun distinctions between masculine and feminine behaviour? I can’t say for sure, but I do know one thing;

  In her search for authenticity, The Hurt Locker boasts Bigelow’s most literal portrayal of masculinity thus far, bolstered by the adoption of her full-fledged docu-drama stick you right in the middle of the tension style. (She reportedly shot…

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  Review by megan ★½ 4

  i fell asleep