FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
The Hurt Locker
Scores
- IMDb7.5/10as of 2026-02-21
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer97%as of 2022-11-29
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.5/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic95/100as of 2025-06-16
What it is
The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. It follows an Iraq War bomb disposal team who are targeted by insurgents and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat.
At a glance
- Genres
- War / Drama / Action
- Original language
- English
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