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There is one movie that was the talk of the Toronto Film Festival, The Hurt Locker. An Iraq war movie about an elite Army bomb squad, the film was being called the best war movie to come out in some time. The poster of the film looks great and it extremely simple in its style but really effective. Other than being the most praised movie of Toronto Film Festival it really doesn’t have any buzz going for it.

“”The Hurt Locker is like having your heart operated on by a construction worker wielding a power pneumatic nail-driver. And the high-voltage stuff, which happens often, is, no joke, on the level of the armed creature-hunting and creature-evading sequences in Aliens.” That’s what Jeffrey Wells had to say about The Hurt Locker after his screening up in Toronto.

Synopsis

Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

The film is directed by Kathryn Bigelow, her previous credits include Blue Steel, Point Break and K-19 Widowmaker. The screenplay for the film was written by newcomer Mark Boal who also had a small hand in the devising of In the Valley of Elah. The film stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, and David Morse. Summit Entertainment picked up the movie for distribution during the festival.

Here is the poster

The Poster of the film

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