7/10
Suspenseful, Totally Engrossing & Exciting Military Action Thriller With An Excellent Jeremy Renner.
20 August 2023
Kathryn Bigelow is an outstanding director that has blessed us with greats such as Point Break, Blue Steel, Near Dark, Zero Dark Thirty & more. Kathryn is a powerhouse movie maker that puts realistic grounded characters at the centre of her creative chaos.

She's a wonderful, visually powerful movie-maker that really specialises in gritty, sweaty, pulsing suspense.

The Hurt Locker is a military Thriller full of explosive action & deep characteristics.

The great, kinda underrated Jeremy Renner gives a blistering performance as a hot-shot, renegade & dangerously fearless bomb disposal expert called Sergeant Will James who is a man who thrives on being so close to the edge with everything he does. Renner plays Will like how Lethal Weapons Martin Riggs would be if he was in Iraq as a bomb disposal expert!!!

Renner is superb in this crazy, raw & very powerful role that is definitely one of his best. Renner is helped out by a well rounded cast of with Anthonie Mackie (in a great role of intensity & emotion) & Brian Geraghty (great role) & Evangelline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse & Guy Pearce. A powerhouse cast.

Will gets closer to the edge, close to danger & his small but loyal team follow him in fear as the heat is on & the territory of war-torn Iraq is burning up.

There's powerful character moments & truly gritty & explosive action sequences that are terrifying. The movie is a Thriller made totally, totally realistic & also makes you hate those Rag heads, suicidal bombing cowards even more!!!

The Hurt Locker truly sizzles with it's suspense & sun-baked setting & tension, a masterclass of stunning, nerve-shredding suspense.

Jeremy Renner is a favourite actor of mine, i love the dude as Hawkeye from the MCU, i prefer him to all the other Avengers. I loved him in the extremely underrated fantasy adventure flick, Hansel & Gretal Witch Hunters & he made the best Bourne film of the lot (yes he's better than Matt Damon) with his Bourne Legacy film & he stole the show in 28 Weeks Later. Also Renner was top notch in Ben Affleck's Crime Thriller, The Town & he was outstanding in the cracking Conspiracy Thriller, Kill the Messenger. Renner gave an Oscar worthy performance in the dark & haunting crime thriller, Wind River.

Renner makes a movie better fact.
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