'Hurt Locker': American Bomb Squad In Baghdad

Audio for this story will be available at approx. 5:00 p.m. ET From one gut-wrenching, bomb-diffusing mission to the next, The Hurt Locker keeps the audience guessing about who has a detonator and who will end up dead. Summit Entertainment The Hurt Locker Rated R: War Violence and Language With: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes , June 26, 2009 · Some filmmakers know how to get under your skin and control your responses — to infect you — and Kathryn Bigelow is among the most gifted. Here's how I knew her Baghdad-set war movie The Hurt Locker was inside me: The characters were in a fierce desert firefight, and Jeremy Renner's Sgt. William James had grabbed the rifle of a soldier who'd just been shot down. It jammed, because the bullets were sticky with blood, and James pulled them out and, as enemy shots... [read full story]                    

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