Synopsis

The Hurt Locker is a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military's unrecognized heores: the technicians of a bomb squad who volunteer to challenge the odds and save lives doing one of the world's most dangerous jobs.

Three members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad battle insurgents and one another as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad - in order to try and make the city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is clear - protect and save - but it's anything but easy, as the margin of error when defusing a war-zone bomb is zero.