The Hurt Locker

“You don't have to be a hero to do this job. But it helps.”

Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner) joins an army bomb squad in Iraq, and his way of working unsettles Sergeant JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty). They cannot work out what drives a man to walk toward the device when everything in the training says to keep your distance. Kathryn Bigelow keeps the camera close and moving, so the heat and dread of each street reach you as they reach the soldiers.