The Hurt Locker Review

An award winning film from Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker is based on a bomb disposal squad going around de-activating and disposing of any bombs that they get made aware of. 

It shows viewers what life is like being a member of their team and having to spend time away from your family in a foreign country to work.

At first the team go out to de-activate a bomb, but unfortunately it doesn't quite go to plan. Sadly the leader of the team gets killed in an unexpected explosion and the team are devastated as he was a great leader and helped the team to work well together.

A few days later a new guy arrives at the camp and becomes a new member of the team. They then have to work together on more jobs to de-activate and dispose of a lot more bombs. The new guy seems to be quite cocky which makes one member of the team think he is trying to replace their old leader.

At first they don’t seem to work that well together but they start to get along better as they realise he’s not trying to fill the old guys shoes; he’s just trying his best to finish and complete the jobs properly with no problems.

I enjoyed this film as it helps the audience to get a better understanding of what it is that these disposal squads do. It helps people to see what their lives are like when they have to leave the ones they love for long period of time and travel across the world just to work. It shows the kind of conditions they live in and helps the viewers to see clearly what the team has to go through out there. I feel that it helps people to have a knowledge of what life is like for a soldier and what the families must go through.

It's an exciting action film and definitely one of the best wars films I've seen. I would definitely recommend this film to anyone I know.