What do you know, a movie about Iraq that I might actually want to see.
The Hurt Locker, directed by Point Break‘ Kathryn Bigelow, is about an army bomb squad unit that difuses bombs. That makes for a lot of really tense scenarios built-in, and if you add a dash of humor from its two likable leads Jeremy Renner (who also stars in the ABC show The Unusuals, which is actually a very cool show, which you should check out) and Anthony Mackie (Half Nelson), that all might add up to a good time in the theater.
Bigelow also directed Strange Days, a very underrated sci-fi movie from 1995, but saw her career stall after K-19: The Widowmaker flopped. An Iraq movie likely isn’t to perform any miracles at the box office, but maybe you’ll decide you want to give it a shot after checking out the trailer:
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