You don't have to be a hero to do this job. But it helps...

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. In the summer of 2004, Bravo Company are at the volatile center of the war, part of a small counterforce trained to handle homemade bombs or Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that account for more than half of American hostile deaths and have killed thousands of Iraqis. A high-pressure, high-stakes assignment the job leaves no room for mistakes, as they learn when they lose their team leader on a mission Kathryn Bigelow brings groundbreaking realistic action and intimate human drama in a gripping film starring Jeremy Renner (Dahmer, The Assassination of Jesse James), Anthony Mackie (Half Nelson) and Brian Geraghty (Jarhead), with cameo appearances by Ralph Fiennes (The Reader) and Guy Pearce (Memento).