I've read a couple of other reviews which go on about the 'inaccuracies' of Bigelow's army leading this film to be great for people who don't know anything about army life, and others which argue that the reason this film has been getting so many bad reviews is because it beat out Avatar for best film and Avatar lovers are angry...

WHO CARES!! no offense to the vets of war (i have massive respect for your brave sacrifice) but inaccuracies are in every film. The movie 'Troy' shows Patroclus as Achilles' cousin, when in actual fact he was his gay lover. The director changed this to suit his American target audience. Well do you think Bigelow said 'OK this film is going to be JUST for army people' NO! she wanted to make money. for that you need as many viewers as possible. which means focus on MAINSTREAM viewers. mainstream viewers don't know, or care about the difference between a staff Sergeant and a As for the whole avatar lovers thing. how is this even relevant?? no one cares that a woman finally beat her husband (ex) at something :P the film was crap, get over it.

Maybe Kathryn Bigelow did this on purpose to distract viewers from noticing the flatness of the film. It did not have (kind of like the actual war) any visible enemy and no objective There was NO character development (except maybe the 'specialist' who hardens up a bit later on) but the main character starts off as a gun-ho, adrenaline junky jarhead and finishes the same way. This film is cited on IMDb as being a thriller. There was nothing thrilling about it! the 'action scenes' (apart from the cool explosion at the start) are merely time fillers (note the slow-mo dropping bullet)

Even, according to herself, her political position is flat!! I disagree and think it is pro-war, but due to word constraints, will not open that chestnut. According to other critics, hurt locker is a film which doesn't say 'war is good' or 'war is bad' but merely 'war' Thats like writing an essay for English and having NO ARGUMENT. who does that?!

Bad film, not worth best picture (neither is avatar BTW). If i wasn't watching it for high school English class i would have walked out of the cinema. 3 stars for cinematography, using actual Iraqi extras, and for having the balls to film next to Iraq