Intense and well-done with only minor nitpicks as both a suspenseful action flick and a character study, I describe The Hurt Locker as "Apocalypse Now with sand". Recommended. I will almost certainly see this again before it leaves the theatres. maegwynn and I went to the Rialto with melindadansky and lunablack to see The Hurt Locker , a film about US miitary explosives experts in Iraq defusing bombs. I'm a big fan of Kathryn Bigelow 's work, primarily _Strange... read more