The Hurt Locker (2008)
[…]"The script — by Mark Boal, who also wrote “Zero Dark Thirty” — is redundant, repeating the motif about war being a drug over and over again until it loses all potency. Then there are the action beats, which feel like some cross between stuff Bigelow did better before and stuff Peter Berg did better in “The Kingdom.”[…] That was a wonderful moment in Oscars history. If only “The Hurt Locker” were able to match its power."