The Hurt Locker
Find a bomb, defuse it. Find a bomb, defuse it. The job is simple enough, but the room for error is zero. Fail to defuse it, and die. This is the daily work of the United States Army's Bravo Company. They patrol Baghdad during one of the Iraq war's most hellish times, trying each day not to get blown up. Our guide to this sand-blasted landscape of sudden, pulverizing death is a cowboy named William James (Jeremy Renner), whose arrogance and cocky manner frankly terrify his new squadmates (an excellent Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty), who have just 38 days left in their rotation and are already frazzled enough. As the unit faces tougher challenges with each new bomb, the men start to fight James's bullish methods. They have only thirty-eight days left in their rotation. They want to live to see day thirty-nine.



