Green Zone (Two-Disc Limited Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Best Review
As an action flick and thriller, it succeeds very well and right from the moment you press "play". Message-wise it is also interesting. Here we have a CIA guy who's been in the country 20 years and feels it would be in the country's best interest to instill what was left of the Iraqi militia in the new govt. There is logic in his reasoning as we witness a chaotic and war-torn Iraq in constant background. Then we have a solder (Damon) running around from site to site on a mission to find WMD and not finding any. A tip from a local guy who later becomes his personal translator leads him to the whereabouts of the head of the Iraqi army. When the soldier (Damon) comes up with a little black book listing the whereabouts of that former Iraqi general, he is faced with a decision about whom to give it to - the CIA guy or his own chain of command. As he seems to be getting the run around from his own command on these bogus WMD sites, he decides to hand it over to the CIA guy. Working with him Damon goes about looking to find and bring back the general. We feel Damon's frustration with not being able to find WMD and also his suspicion in whether or not there ever were any. Background being what it is we can also sympathize with his siding with the CIA guy. What gives this movie it's counterperspective though is Damon's Iraqi translator. HE doesn't want to see this general put into the new govt. When that stance is revealed, we suddenly question Damon's original and seemingly sensable quest - the Iraqi translator hates the general.
It's an interesting movie that makes you wonder about truth and fiction regarding the war. Not that the movie is the first thing that ever made anybody wonder about that. It's going to get under some people's skin because it takes true subject matter and mixes it with a fictious story - but again it'll have you wondering just how much of it is fiction. For example, I'd like to know if there was any truth in the so-called "Jordan talks" where according to the movie, the general told them there were no WMD but then it was reported back to Washington that according to same general - there were. In the beginning of the movie the soldiers are being led on their wild goose chase for WMD by instructions supposedly having been left by the general. Later we find out from the general himself that those things were never said. This being one of the special reasons Damon's chain of command wants him dead. Again, there are a lot of tidbits like this that help form the basis of the movie and whether or not these events have been culled from fact or fancy, you don't know. You know some of it's true, because they certainly didn't find WMD with that as justification for invasion basically and you know that troops are still there now. So, how much of this movie is fact and fiction will play with your mind a little. If it is a propaganda film, then it is a clever propaganda film. Either way though, it did entertain this reviewer.
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Green Zone (Two-Disc Limited Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Overview
Academy Award® nominees Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) reteam in this action-packed thriller. Damon stars as Roy Miller, a rogue U.S. Army officer who must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil before war escalates in an unstable region. Also starring Academy Award® nominees Greg Kinnear and Amy Ryan, Green Zone is “one hell of a thriller” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).
Green Zone (Two-Disc Limited Edition + Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Specifications
Matt Damon reteams with his Bourne Supremacy director to create a thriller grounded in contemporary politics: the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) travels across war-torn Iraq, pursuing the intelligence he's been given, but every site indicated comes up empty of WMDs. Investigating the source of the intelligence, he finds himself caught between CIA agent Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson, 28 Days Later) and politician Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear, Little Miss Sunshine) over the identity of "Magellan," the supposed source. As Miller tracks down an Iraqi general, he ends up further and further afield, facing danger from all sides. It's hard to say which is the greater accomplishment--that Green Zone manages to turn a still-volatile political issue into a propulsive action movie, or that it manages to depict Iraqi people as individuals with a wide range of responses to what's happened to their country. Damon's performance is low-key but effective as Miller tries to maintain some semblance of moral clarity in a circumstance that muddies everything. Also featuring Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) as a compromised journalist and Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner) as an Iraqi civilian who gets dragged into far more than he expected. --Bret Fetzer
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Customer Reviews
Ugh, nothing but a liberal rant - Jim M - MA United States
Don't bother with this one. Very disappointed, I am a big fan of Damon, but not this movie.
Great action movie set in Iraq. - Dr.Blu - Asia
I really enjoyed the Bourne trilogy with Matt Damon directed by Paul Greengrass. I had read a lot of mixed reviews about how GREEN ZONE was not true to military standards & the filming was too much hand held filming giving you a bit of motion sickness. On the strength of the Bourne movies I bought the Blu Ray. I found the movie to be good in terms of Blu Ray quality but not excellent due to the hand held filming method & low light filming.
I found the movie itself to be very enjoyable and quite believable in regards to the storyline & political games Washington plays. Did Washington fabricate the WMD story? Maybe they did, maybe they did not........ but this slant is one possible truth that we probably will never learn. I did not see any anti-American or Anti-Military flavor to the movie. They just raise the possibility that some high placed people wanted the U.S. to invade Iraq with or without WMDs. It reflects the fact that military men & politicians blindly follow orders from higher up and do as they are told. Some men however question the orders they receive and look for the real underlying truth .
This movie is fiction based loosely on real events. I was not looking for a true to life documentary ........but just good escape entertainment.
Very entertaining film...... if you liked the Bourne movies you will likely enjoy GREEN ZONE.
Political with good action - Lewis R. Wygand - Florida
Although this Matt Damon movie is about the WMD we didnt find, that I believe were there and moved a while before 2003. It makes President Bush's claim and all of the other countries claims look wrong. I understand where Matt is comming from. I know his view and his politics. Though I do not agree with Matt I have to give him credit for being involved with such a good action flick. That is why I bought it ,for the action and it fits the bill for me
Great Movie - Liberty -
Paul Greengrass has done it again. The film is fast paced with a story line that is original and captivating.
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