The Die is Cast
What movie, way underseen, has this cast? Evangeline Lilly (Lost), Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse, and an Oscar-non headed Jeremy Renner (The Assassination of Jesse James).
The answer: The Hurt Locker–an indie (made for $ll million), written by Mark Boal (Valley of Elah), directed, superbly, by Kathryn Bigelow, and (not very arguably) the most suspenseful movie of the year, and one of the two or three best of the year.
While the rest of the country went calling on a “war movie” with an incorrectly-spelled title, some chose instead this superb study in courage, about a bomb-disposal squad In Iraq,..and with the most complicated hero in modern movies, walking the razor’s edge between Heroism and Madness.
When it appears on DVD, see it.
