This film by female director Katherine Bigelow is one that should be viewed as being the best film of 2009. This film was nominated for the 2009 Oscars along with Avatar, it hurled in and swooped the win right under excellent director James Cameron's feet. The reason for this is because the film is original and is very serious and shows that war is a drug and one that can't be stopped unless we bring our troops home. Real things always beat fiction in the Oscars which is why Avatar bit the dust. It happens every year but going back to this great film lets discuss the moral and the details. Katherine Bigelow was the first female director that i know to win Best Picture over an excellent director known as James Cameron. This film has a great plot and its explosion scenes are greatly crafted and are very interesting with their visual effects. It really does support the quote "War Is A Drug". I loved this movie because it showed that war isn't only blowing people up and demolishing buildings, no this film shows that war is hurtful on people and their mentality. The film also shows that war is something that some people love and hold on to. The plot of this very excellent film is as follows. Jeremy Renner plays Sergeant William James who is replacing Staff Sergeant Matt Thompson who was killed in an unfortunate bombing. Sergeant James is accompanied by his partners Sgt. Sanborn and Sgt. Eldridge who are a squad who disarm bombs in the local vicinity. The film goes on and follows the intensity of disarming bombs and how war is hurtful to the mind. Sgt James is overtaken by the need to fill the shoes of the previous Sergeant and is pushed over the edge in some ways. The film goes on from there with more war sequences and more interesting story details that i cannot give away. The film changed the way i viewed a war movie's for ever with showing that you need more than huge action sequences to make a war movie, you need story and character development and that is where this movie succeeds. This war movie won Best Picture Award just like "Saving Private Ryan" did years ago. I loved this movie and i highly recommend it for people who enjoy war films. My favorite scene in this film is the scene in which Sgt. Thompson is running from the explosion of the bomb, i liked this scene because you felt the uneasy emotion of when someone is about to die or the fact that an explosion looks just like fire and smoke but it is more than that. I loved this film and recommend it to war movie fans.

GRADE- A