"Hurt Locker" Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
The Hurt Locker was an intense action movie with an ok story. It made up for the slow parts in the story with dramatic action scenes. There were few, if any, shots that were shot with a tripod. Everything was gritty and shaky to make you feel like you were there. For a movie that seemed shot entirely free hand, it was extremely good. Other movies that also used that effect like Cloverfield made it almost unbearable to watch. The movie had great settings. They really focused on the ghost towns and the giant deserts. The action really felt more intense than most other action flicks but when I watched it again, I saw it was because the scenes in the Hurt Locker were much longer. In normal action films, there are a lot of quick shots of shootings and other things but in the Hurt Locker, most scenes were of the main character walking slowly in his bomb suit pulling wires while trying to defuse bombs, every second you are waiting for the explosion.
I thought that the Hurt Locker was an awesome action movie. I thought that all of the shots really had an awesome feel to is because it was really gritty and sort of filmed like hand cam but WAY more steady. Like Nathan I thought a lot of the locations were really cool to look at and it added a sense of openness and kind of desolation. It had a fantastic ending which i wont give away, but the acting made this movie over the top. I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.
ReplyDeleteLike Nathan, I thought the dryness and length of some of the shots really built up the suspense. It put the whole film on a ticking time bomb, and it could go off at any second. This put a realistic look on the war, and the pov/intense cinematography of this film really added the affect of the reality of war.
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