Review of Green Zone (2010) by Baurushan J — 29 Nov 2012

After discovery that the intelligence his team is relying on to find weapons of mass destruction, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller decides to find more than WMD?s he wants to find the answers.

After going to multiple sights that are said to have WMD?s (weapons of mass destruction) Chief Miller (Matt Damon) starts to question the validity of the information that is risking his teams lives.

Miller comes across a local Iraqi named Freddy(Khalid Abdalla) who loves his country and wants to help its liberation, he notifies Miller that a group of high level Iraqi military leaders are having a meeting down the street and leads miller to them. After the confrontation Miller acquires a book that contains critical information, that both the department of defense and CIA have interest in.

This is the third teaming up between Damon and Director Greengrass following the last two Bourne films. Greengrass uses a similar hand held style of filming that some will find a bit nauseating but it does give the viewer a feeling of being embedded in the action.

Green Zone is ultimately a movie that questions the motives of going to war and how nothing is as clear as it appears to be, it is a film that wears its feelings about justification for war on it?s sleeve. The most deciding factor on your enjoyment of the film isn?t the performances but rather your politics.