Review: The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker is an incredibly tense affair, made to seem even more realistic by a handheld shooting style made famous by the Bourne films and only loose story that ties together a series of events documenting the remaining days of a bomb disposal squad's tour of Iraq.

Fans of Mike from Neighbours will be disappointed, but blowing him up in the first scene has you on the edge of your seats throughout as you wonder who's next to go. Fully deserving its Oscar glory, the only downside for me was the final action scene, which lost the sense of realism that it had worked so hard to maintain throughout.