Word: bomb
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...Army bomb disposal unit has three men: an intelligence officer, the specialist who covers the scene with his rifle and the staff sergeant who walks up to the device and tries to turn it off. Today there's a report of one on a Baghdad street. Mission simple to define - "Let them know that if they're gonna leave a bomb on the side of the road," the staff sergeant says, "we're gonna blow up their f---in' road" - but way harder to accomplish. As he walks toward the contaminated area wearing a heavily insulated space suit...
...hear Sanborn's pleas to get the hell out of there. Groups of men have gathered at storefronts, on the balconies and roofs of apartment houses, and James' lone-gunman bravado could jeopardize the mission. But a genius has to stay focused. There's got to be a bomb in here somewhere; ah, under the hood. Though his mates aren't crazy about his methods - Sanborn sucker-punches James in the jaw after this little escapade - they'll come to appreciate him. "Not very good with people, are you," Eldridge tells James, "but you're a good warrior...
...heart of the film is a half dozen sequences, most of them on bomb-squad detail, one long, terrific one showing the unit holed up with some Brit mercenaries (led by Ralph Fiennes, the star of Bigelow's 1995 futuristic movie Strange Days) fighting off fire from al-Qaeda-in-Iraq types out in the desert. Boal and Bigelow know that there's enough tension in the act of walking up to a bomb and trying to defuse it; they don't have to amp up the suspense with theatrics...
...Congress--slips into alcoholism and idly watching ball games and pitying himself as he putters around the family meatpacking business. When Alice finally decides she's had enough and uses her mother's home as the halfway house to a formal separation, Maj calls and drops a bomb: the family had been shocked that someone as refined as Alice had chosen Charlie in the first place. "[H]e was a 31-year-old wastrel, making that preposterous congressional run, no less, and he was dating waitresses. We couldn't imagine what...
...Congress - slips into alcoholism and idly watching ball games and pitying himself as he putters around the family meat packing business. When Alice finally decides she's had enough and uses her mother's home as the halfway house to a formal separation, Maj calls and drops a bomb: the family had been shocked that someone as refined as Alice had chosen Charlie in the first place. "[H]e was a 31-year-old wastrel, making that preposterous congressional run, no less, and he was dating waitresses. We couldn't imagine what...