CA The Hurt Locker

Critical Assessment
I wrote this review for the magazine called The Box Office. They are more drawn to an audience of 20 to 40 year olds. It is a magazine more about movies so it would also incorporate more of a detailed review about the directors achievements and techniques and also the negatives about their movie. It is a non gender biased magazine. Box Office would probably be more of a semi-higher educational level, meaning those with Bachelors degrees and maybe someone with a Masters Degree. Obviously their hobbies would have something to do with movies. Box Office magazine uses curse words, but not in every review. It may contain slang and some more higher educational vocabulary. This was one of the main reasons why I chose to do my review for The Hurt Locker for Box Office magazine. I felt it was well rounded. I feel that it may be drawn towards people with a middle to high income due to the nature of the magazine being for flexography. I did use a lot of Military relevant language because I felt it needed to give the reader an insight to how the military thinks. I felt that I was able to make a well rounded review for someone to watch or at least give them some background information in order for them to think more in depth about the movie. I felt that it was important for me to write this paper for this movie because there are too many movies that claim to be accurate about war, but only capture small kind of important things necessary for their movie.


Katherine Bigelow is a great director and has come a long way in making "war" movies more realistic, but she still fell short. It is important for people to know that they will never get it right unless they have been there. Even if they have been there, they would still have to scale things back because most civilians are not ready and never will be ready for the full story.