This riveting, documentarylike combat movie about a bomb squad in Iraq will keep you on edge. By Peter Rainer | Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor from the June 26, 2009 edition This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Film critic Peter Rainer says Hollywood may finally have captured the essence of the Iraq war with 'The Hurt Locker.' Of the many dramatic movies that have been made about Iraq, "The Hurt Locker," which is about Army bomb-squad technicians in Baghdad, is the only one that conveys with the utmost vividness a documentarylike immediacy. The director, Kathryn Bigelow, shot with four lightweight cameras, and the imagery is rarely still. The jitteriness is appropriate for a world where everything can suddenly blow to smithereens. The script is by Mark... [read full story]
