Watch This: Intense International Trailer for The Hurt Locker

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on January 7, 2009

Every since fellow blogger Jeffrey Wells told us that Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq war actioner The Hurt Locker was like “having your heart operated on by a construction worker wielding a power pneumatic nail-driver. And the high-voltage stuff, which happens often, is, no joke, on the level of the armed creature-hunting and creature-evading sequences in Aliens,” we were hooked. The film, which debuted at this past year’s Toronto Film Festival, follows a U.S. Army bomb squad in Baghdad. With performances from Anthony Mackie and Jeremy Renner that earned Independent Spirit Award nominations, this thriller is easily one of the indie releases to watch in ‘09.

The Hurt Locker was directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, K19: The Widowmaker). It stars Guy Pearce, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Ralph Fiennes and Lost’s Evangeline Lilly. It is scheduled to hit theaters sometime in 2009. Check out the brand new international trailer below.


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  • Looks pretty intense, though clearly this is another example of the kind of soldier who would immediately be reprimanded and thrown into the Brig if they actually existed and ignored the rules so flagrantly. But who cares because shit blows up!
  • No the main factor here is that Hollywood is FINALLY bringing out positive movies about the war in Iraq. Up to this point all the previous releases have been damning or anti war films that no one wanted to see and the revenues showed this. There are so many good stories out there on the internet with real life events and stories from the troops, all they have to do is write them up and produce it.
  • Looks awesome. Guy Pearce is the man. Ever since Memento, I told myself "I need to watch that guy."
  • ernest
    voltage removed the video from YT. good move, Voltage. be horrible for people to see a trailer for your flick.
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