The Hurt Locker 2008. Dir: Kathryn Bigelow. USA. Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse.

I think The Hurt Locker is very good and it deserves whatever accolades people decide to give it. But at the same time there is this uneasiness about the entire idea of the movie. Spending $15 million on a movie filmed ‘within miles of the Iraqi border’, having instantly recognizable faces like Guy Pearce and Ralph Fiennes playing random soldiers and having people pay to watch it, having critics call it a ‘near perfect movie’ just seems so wrong when you see if free everyday on the news, minus the snappy dialogue, realism, ‘a look into the lives of’ and other necessary elements of a plot. The Hurt Locker is an extremely realistic, suspenseful, has great acting and everything else. But it was unnecessary, at least Avatar gave us a glimpse of a fictional world that some would die for.

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