The Hurt Locker

How good was this movie? Kathryn Bigelow's latest masterpiece: "The Hurt Locker" really, truly, genuinely is a good movie. OK - it's not the best release of last year, which in my humble opinion was definitely the South African marvel "District 9" but the Hurt Locker really does deliver a powerful punch, giving a real taste of life as an army bomb disposal officer in Iraq.

The cinematography is spectacular, filmed mostly on location in Jordan, the pacing and timing of the action, and the delivery of the script all match and the direction is as good as anything in Strangedays or Point Break, better in fact, by an order of magnitude. Check it out: