With great anticipation, I inserted the most critically acclaimed film of the year into the DVD player, fully expecting to be blown away like never before.
That was very naive of me.
The movie I am referring to is called The Hurt Locker. Surprisingly successful for an independent film but incredibly boring and pointless when compared with the rest of the year’s top movies, the story follows a bomb squad in Iraq during their last 39 days in rotation.
Intense? Yes. Gripping? Yes. Entertaining? Absolutely. And yet, it’s some of the most shallow entertainment I’ve enjoyed all year(2009).
For it’s true that there are plenty of surprisingly deep and fascinating moments to be had here, but it’s wrapped up in a boring, episodic sequence of events with little direction. This utterly kills the plot’s pace, leaving you with a film that is just barely watchable, if satisfying in retrospect.
It’s not that I don’t like “slow” or seemingly “uneventful” films. I’ll watch Citizen Kane, Casablanca, or The Best Years Of Our Lives any day, because they are exciting, engrossing, and well-structured stories. The Hurt Locker is not. It’s shallow, monotonous, and in many ways terribly structured.
I have no idea why critics think it’s perfect. I have no idea why critics believe that if it’s hard to watch and hurts your head, it’s more qualified as art. But they’re wrong. Not because The Hurt Locker is a bad movie, but because it’s so utterly flawed.
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