I recently saw the Hurt Locker which won the Oscar for best picture and perhaps because I enjoy war movies, I found it to be a very gritty, well filmed movie. It is filmed as if it is a documentary and the filming style gives one a sense that one is in the battle zone and keeps you nervous about the next set of shots or explosions all of the time! The characters are well developed and it really gives you an impression of an Iraq where basically at every corner there is somebody waiting to set off a bomb or kill people. I particularly enjoyed the battle scene in the desert where the US and British forces come under fire from some snipers. If you enjoy war movies, you will certainly love the movie.