Matt Damon is the star of this action packed war drama and it is similar to the Bourne movies he's famous for. The Green Zone is a war drama with some thrilling moments added in and the Bourne movies were all drama and spy thrillers with some action added. This movie is set back in 2003 and Damon's character and his team of army officers are looking for the elusive WMS's, weapons of mass destructions in Iraq. This title is referring to the perimeter known as the former leader, Saddam Hussein's Palace, often called the Emerald City, where the government grounds were set up.
Onetime Washington Post Baghdad Bureau chief correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote a book by the same name and the movie is based on this book. The book's author was there when the US troupes attempted to set up the temporary government on the Hussein former palace grounds. There have been many critics along the way that have noted this new government was built in somewhat of a glass castle which was so far removed from reality of the Iraq War that it could only fail in meeting the needs of the people being served in that country, something the US did not want.
This movie is a fictional account told in that time period with all its thrilling drama and set when and where the actual US-led occupation of Bagdad happened. The director, Paul Greengrass of United 93, and screenwriter Brian Helgeland used most of Chandrasekaran's accounts from his book as the starting point for their own movie story. This is a story of an officer, Damon, who joins up with a good-guy CIA agent, Brendon Gleeson of In Bruges and Beowulf, to find evidence of the weapons of mass destruction. The CIA agent is a senior member of the bureau but can only offer so much help.
Rounding out the all-star cast is Greg Kennear of the Last Song and Amy Ryan of Gone Baby Gone and the Office. Ryan portrays a foreign correspondent from the New York Times who has traveled to Iraq to dispute accusations about the weapons of mass destructions against the US. Kennear's characters is another CIA agent who desperately wants to get Damon's character out of his hair and keep spinning this situation in good light, no matter the truth.
Damon's character can only find out the source of Ryan's information is Magellan and he hunts everywhere for the identity of this secret name. But Ryan is a true journalist and will not give up her source so it says as Magellan and the weapon's of mass destructions remains a mystery. Damon's character will even confront Ryan's character about her sources but she holds fast to her journalistic convictions and will not reveal them. This only proves to thicken the plot.
Because of covert operations and faulty Intel, Damon's character keeps coming up empty-handed and most of the time feels as if he's being sent on a 'wild goose chase'. There is so much information he is not privy to and most of the time he is caught in the middle of an unknown source of gunfire and people in his own unit trying to tell him to leave things the way they are. Damon's soldier is a determined character and desperately wants to do the right thing for the people of Iraq and the American people, so he moves on.
It becomes clear that Damon's character's quest for the truth is the most valuable weapon of all when he's kidnapped and then escapes in a battle-royal against several men. What he finds out after this is that Kinnear's character has been working against him and not with him. With this part cleared up, there are still several unanswered questions.
By the end of the move, all questions should be answered, maybe leaving one or two for a sequel. Will Damon's character help the rouge regimen in clearing up their act or will the violence continue to escalade to unstable conditions? The Green Zone is a great movie for those who love intrigue and war with their movies and non-stop action. Director Greengrass was also Damon's director in two of the Bourne movies so audiences are guaranteed a great film. - 40724
Onetime Washington Post Baghdad Bureau chief correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote a book by the same name and the movie is based on this book. The book's author was there when the US troupes attempted to set up the temporary government on the Hussein former palace grounds. There have been many critics along the way that have noted this new government was built in somewhat of a glass castle which was so far removed from reality of the Iraq War that it could only fail in meeting the needs of the people being served in that country, something the US did not want.
This movie is a fictional account told in that time period with all its thrilling drama and set when and where the actual US-led occupation of Bagdad happened. The director, Paul Greengrass of United 93, and screenwriter Brian Helgeland used most of Chandrasekaran's accounts from his book as the starting point for their own movie story. This is a story of an officer, Damon, who joins up with a good-guy CIA agent, Brendon Gleeson of In Bruges and Beowulf, to find evidence of the weapons of mass destruction. The CIA agent is a senior member of the bureau but can only offer so much help.
Rounding out the all-star cast is Greg Kennear of the Last Song and Amy Ryan of Gone Baby Gone and the Office. Ryan portrays a foreign correspondent from the New York Times who has traveled to Iraq to dispute accusations about the weapons of mass destructions against the US. Kennear's characters is another CIA agent who desperately wants to get Damon's character out of his hair and keep spinning this situation in good light, no matter the truth.
Damon's character can only find out the source of Ryan's information is Magellan and he hunts everywhere for the identity of this secret name. But Ryan is a true journalist and will not give up her source so it says as Magellan and the weapon's of mass destructions remains a mystery. Damon's character will even confront Ryan's character about her sources but she holds fast to her journalistic convictions and will not reveal them. This only proves to thicken the plot.
Because of covert operations and faulty Intel, Damon's character keeps coming up empty-handed and most of the time feels as if he's being sent on a 'wild goose chase'. There is so much information he is not privy to and most of the time he is caught in the middle of an unknown source of gunfire and people in his own unit trying to tell him to leave things the way they are. Damon's soldier is a determined character and desperately wants to do the right thing for the people of Iraq and the American people, so he moves on.
It becomes clear that Damon's character's quest for the truth is the most valuable weapon of all when he's kidnapped and then escapes in a battle-royal against several men. What he finds out after this is that Kinnear's character has been working against him and not with him. With this part cleared up, there are still several unanswered questions.
By the end of the move, all questions should be answered, maybe leaving one or two for a sequel. Will Damon's character help the rouge regimen in clearing up their act or will the violence continue to escalade to unstable conditions? The Green Zone is a great movie for those who love intrigue and war with their movies and non-stop action. Director Greengrass was also Damon's director in two of the Bourne movies so audiences are guaranteed a great film. - 40724
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