The Hurt Locker is an American war film about the conflict in Iraq released in 2009. It was nominated for nine academy awards and won six including best picture, and best director for Kathryn Bigelow the first woman ever to win this award. The story was filmed in Jordan only miles from the real conflict in Iraq. It follows a small EOD team (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) who's job is to disarm IED's (Improvised Explosive Device) that terrorist have set up. This is an extremely dangerous job because at any time someone watching them trying to disarm the bomb could remote detonate. Leader of this EOD team is William James (Jeremy Renner). Due to his reckless ways of disarming bombs putting his other team members in danger, the tension grows between James and the other two team members. When testing out some confiscated IED's William James remembers he forgot his gloves down at the rigged and ready explosives. While hes down there picking up his gloves the other team members contemplate killing him, and signing papers saying the explosives had a malfunction which is very common with them. They let the thought stay in their minds but never follow through with this. This film is not like other war movies with intense gun battles, its far more different than war movies like Black Hawk Down or Saving Private Ryan. . It is more realistic about showing the everyday struggle and stress of a U.S soldier in Iraq. This movie didn't make nearly as much money as Avatar did but won best picture over it. Personally I like The Hurt Locker more but Avatar was still pretty good.
