You'll know when you're in it.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith  Explosive Cinema | 15 |  |
| Die Burger François Oscar-ster hinder wel hier en daar | 15 | |
| Cape Times Kenneth Turan 'Hurt Locker' blows one away | 20 | |
| Box Office Pam Grady A new addiction in modern warcraft | 15 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Bigelow and Boal know what they’re doing. This movie embeds itself in a man’s mind. | 20 | |
| eye Weekly 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. | 15 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Bigelow builds a combustible drama that shakes you in ways you don't see coming. | 18 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs The Hurt Locker might not be perfect, but it's pretty darn good and clearly quite engaging. | 14 | |
| Metacritic.com 35 critics | 19 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 195 critics | 17 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer 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. | 19 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 46624 Netizens A Perfectly Shattering Film Going Experience | 16 | |
Average .. 85% | 17 | |