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Accentuating the positive factors of a heavily biased film that keeps to the formula that anything connected to the subject of Bagdad must therefore be filmed with cinema-verite style is just one of the points accentuated by ‘The Hurt Locker’.
Whatever the essential parts to the film are, it takes a considerable time to make them and much like the heavily pointless ‘Jarjead’, seems to be an attempt to bore the viewer rigid with banality.
A tedious film
In a staggering two hours approximation there are two impressive scenes of approximately a few minutes of anything remotely worthy of any consideration. The futile efforts are magnified by such scenes of immense boorish-ness such as two characters punching each other in the stomach, while in one room.
However, to observe that old consideration that ‘The Hurt Locker’ is merely a movie even, is to allow it more worth than its’ release would suggest. It could actually front a purpose to indirectly holding the thought that war should be avoided because one of the by-products of objectivity are surprisingly tedious films such as ‘The Hurt Locker’.
Unproductive direction
As unproductive and nonsensical Kathryn Bigelow’s direction is, the intent of the unvaried and mistakenly low level of acting from clearly one view politically, leads to a movie that does not directly view the subject as anything other that dull as dishwater. Yet even dishwater has depth.
Questionable for its accolade, (enough to receive the Oscar for best director) is not to suggest that anything else worthwhile was worthy of nomination. Clearly not the public opinion of ‘Avatar’ or even ‘Precious.’ Yet, if you like to watch American men punching each other in the stomach, you won’t be disappointed.
