The Hurt Locker
About The Hurt Locker
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is a 2008 thriller war film. At 131 minutes long, it arrived in October 2008.
The film is filed under soldier, rescue, violence, and disaster.
Jeremy Renner stars as Staff Sergeant William James, Anthony Mackie as Sergeant JT Sanborn, Brian Geraghty as Specialist Owen Eldridge, and David Morse as Colonel Reed. The screenplay is by Mark Boal. It was produced by Kingsgate Films and Voltage Pictures. It streams on Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels in the United States.
Jarhead, The Wall, and American Sniper make useful companions to The Hurt Locker, all filed under anti war, iraq war, and sniper. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 6,379 votes and it carries a R rating.