Saturday, June 27, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by Associated Press LOS ANGELES: Films about the "war on terror" have not been high on audiences' must-see list. Yet the makers of the latest, "The Hurt Locker," hope they have the ingredients that box-office duds about Iraq and Afghanistan have lacked. Advance word is that director Kathryn Bigelow and her colleagues deliver nail-biting tension and a remarkable immersive atmosphere with "The Hurt Locker," giving viewers a real sense of the lives of bomb-defusing technicians in Baghdad. The team appears to be proud of the fact that the story is stripped of US foreign-policy critiques that left such recent war films as "Rendition," and "In the Valley of Elah" vulnerable to the accusation of being preachy. "There's no hidden political agenda in this," said Jeremy Renner,... [read full story]
