HURT LOCKER (2009) B

This is an excellent movie about soldiers in the Iraq War. Very graphic . . . as war movies should be. Only reinforces my belief that all of the "political warriors" should be forced to fight on the front lines. Be sure, we would have never gotten into that situation . . . if our born again alcoholic Georgie Bush and his merry men, including Chaney, Rumsfeld, Thomas Friedman (yes, he supported the war to bring modernity to the middle east) . . . and my favorite PhD's, Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice . . . had to eat shrapnel and bullets in 105 degree heat.

Saddam and his nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. Let's not allow the hawks in Israel get us into another police action in IRAN.

Unfortunately, the movie was more of a documentary than a fictional drama. That's why the B+ instead of an A.

From Netflix: In the summer of 2004, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge of Bravo Company are at the volatile center of the war;  part of a small counterforce specifically trained to handle the homemade bombs, or Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), that account for more than half of American hostile deaths and have killed thousands of Iraqis. 

A high-pressure, high-stakes assignment, the job leaves no room for mistakes, as they learn when they lose their team leader on a mission. When Staff Sergeant William James takes over the team, Sanborn and Eldridge are shocked by what seems like his reckless disregard for military protocol and basic safety measures. 

And yet, in the fog of war, appearances are never reliable for long. Is James really a swaggering cowboy who lives for peak experiences and the moments when the margin of error is zero - or is he a consummate professional who has honed his esoteric craft to high-wire precision? As the fiery chaos of Baghdad swirls around them, the men struggle to understand and contain their new leader long enough for them to make it home. They have only 38 days left in their tour of Iraq, but with each new mission comes another deadly encounter.