Green Zone is a depiction of how the United States , after the ouster of Saddam Hussein as the Iraqi ruler, went on a witch hunt to find Weapons Of Mass Destruction (WMD) through out Iraq . Matt Damon plays Miller who heads up a re-con team that seeks out locations that are suppose have WMD, but they always come up short and he becomes driven to find out why they are given false information. When he is tipped that there is a meeting nearby consisting of Al Rawi (Naor) aka The Jake Of Clubs (Saddam’s top army general), he sets out to capture the war criminal and get answers to why the can’t find the weapons. Unfortunately the general eludes him but he soon learns that the U. S. are split on the direction on the future of Iraq, with Clark Poundstone (Kinnear) wanting complete chaos and Martin Brown (Gleeson) trying to resolve things a bit more civil. Miller must decide which side to take while also realizing that the U. S. may be involved with the WMD cover up.
Reel Talk:
Don’t be fooled into thinking that because director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon who teamed for the Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum and have reunited for this film, that this is a movie about a super spy. It is basically about a soldier that is interested in finding the truth about what is going on during the Iraqi war. This is another movie that attempts to display America ’s conflicting interaction with the political concerns of other countries. Damon portrays the same bravado that he displayed in the Bourne series which is why the trailers will have you believe this film is of the same caliber. Still it is a decent movie at best.
Starring: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Yigal Naor and Khalid Abdalla
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Rated: R
I give it 3 corn dogs
By: Corndog – The Reel Hustler
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