The Hurt Locker was praised by critics and cinema enthusiasts, yet the 2009 war drama was condemned as controversial by veterans. Katheryn Bigelow’s film about a U.S. bomb disposal team in the Iraq War received a 97% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and earned six Academy Awards, including Best Picture of 2009. The exploration of soldiers’ psyches and the nerve-wracking tension of defusing bombs seemed like a brutal yet honest portrayal of war. The Hurt Locker may have seemed realistic to audiences, but it received a mixed response from war veterans, the very group it was depicting.
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