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The Hurt Locker

You'll know when you're in it.

This highly-rated war drama takes a look at a bomb disposal squad operating in Iraq. We focus on three men, in particular the new squad leader, and two of his underlings, who have only a few weeks left before returning Stateside. The new leader has a reckless streak and pushes his men into dangerous situations, which is of course at odds with his men's desire to go home alive ...

131 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Violence)
Action, Drama, Thriller, War.

Credits

Cast

Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly

Director

Kathryn Bigelow

Screenplay

Mark Boal

Music

Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders

Cinematography

Barry Ackroyd

Editing

Chris Innis, Bob Murawski

Sound formats

Dolby Digital

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2009

Produced by

Voltage Pictures, Grosvenor Park Media, FCEF, First Light Productions, Kingsgate Films

SA Distributor

Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	War, drama
Language	Moderate to strong and infrequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Fairly frequent, realistic, moderate to strong bloody and gore
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	Some profanity, mild to moderate
Drug abuse	Tobacco use
Comments	Intense sense of threat and menace
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

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Ratings

Scale (Max)

International Media

Box Office (USA)Pam Grady A new addiction in modern warcraft

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert Bigelow and Boal know what they’re doing. This movie embeds itself in a man’s mind.

eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson In an era when movies seem to offer less and less to paying customers, it’s no small thing to encounter a two-for-one deal like The Hurt Locker. A perceptive and provocative study of men at war (the Iraq War in particular), it’s also the summer’s most stunning and suspenseful action movie.

Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers Bigelow builds a combustible drama that shakes you in ways you don't see coming.

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs The Hurt Locker might not be perfect, but it's pretty darn good and clearly quite engaging.

Metacritic.com35 critics

RottenTomatoes.com195 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer Consensus: A well-acted, intensely shot, action filled war epic, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is thus far the best of the recent dramatizations of the Iraq War.

Internet (IMDB)46624 Netizens A Perfectly Shattering Film Going Experience

Average .. 85%

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