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  1. Fri, 01-15-2010, 10:14 PM #1
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    Movie: The Hurt Locker

    This is an Iraq war movie billed by one critic as a near flawless war movie that garnered critical acclaim and great reviews. I couldn't see that it deserved all the praise.

    It is a pretty run of the mill war movie to me, complete with the wild-card hotshot, soldiers counting down the days, ridiculous situations that would have been solved easily with a single bullet, and screaming yokels running back and forth in the aftermath of an explosion or bombing. This movie is nowhere near as thought-provoking and emotionally wrenching as it tries to be, and doesn't come close to movies like Full Metal Jacket.

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    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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  2. Wed, 01-20-2010, 08:45 PM #2
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    Just watched this yesterday... and yeah, I agree with you.

    I enjoyed the intro sequence, but after that it just went downhill. It started getting over the top when the hot-shot guy decided to hunt down people to get his adrenaline fix. I was like, "Am I watching the Bourne Identity or a war movie?" Definitely no FMJ, and not even a very memorable war movie for that matter.

    Still - it's entertaining, and worth a watch, but nowhere near as good as some critics make it out to be.
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