This film is about a bomb squad in Iraq, and as you can guess from the movie poster, not every mission goes well. The film centers around three characters who are about a month from finishing their tour. Jeremy Renner plays the reckless Staff Sargent and his team includes Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie. With not major stars you are in the same position as the soldiers because you don't know when and if they will be blown up.The reason this film is so highly acclaimed is that the action is not forced. There has been a trend in film to shake the camera and disorient the audience to excite them. All of the action here is based on the soldiers fear, which mostly comes from their reckless leader. Renner is amazing in this film and for someone that I've seen in a number of films now this is the only one I consider memorable to date.
This was not as good as Up in the Air though, why? It just doesn't fit this year. America is focused on the problems at home and doesn't want to think about the war that we all know now was a mistake [or always did...]. I would love to see Kathryn Bigelow and Jeremy Renner bring home some awards for this film, if you see two films this year see this one.
Vote: 8/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/
i think i liked this more than up in the air, despite my crush on george clooney. both were good though. i think the theme of 'what drives people to fight' is more universal than the rare bird hermitic american businessman
Trả lờiXóaI agree that both are excellent films. However, I totally disagree that the theme of Up in the Air is "the rare bird hermitic american businessman". Not only does the film deal with the fear/pain of losing a job (which, as was stated in the blog, most Americans can identify with in some way). But its central theme of "no man is an island" is both timeless and universal- perhaps more so than “what drives people to fight” (which is definitely arguable as the theme for Hurt Locker).
Trả lờiXóaThe few comments from this movie review that were actually about the movie, were pretty good, Larsen reached well beyond movie box cover. The review could have been a little more eloquent, even though he was all over the map with topics, he still managed to link them together as if he did it on purpose. For other LFR fans the road map for this movie review looks something like this...Start out at movie comments about Hurt Locker, go until you see a sentence where Larsen should have used "practical" instead of "reckless". When you see the last paragraph take a right at comments about a completely different movie, go one sentence past American domestic views until you see some political comments about foreign war and take a right, a few blocks down on your left will be a period with a sign that reads "What the hell were we talking about?". I personally had to keep scrolling back up to the top of the web page to see what the heck blog I was on.
Trả lờiXóaObjectiveness: 3 Turkeys
Intention: 4 Turkeys
Quality and Effort: 5
Total Score: 12 Turkeys