Green Zone (DVD)

Matt Damon stars in this superior war thriller, with Greg Kinnear. The opening scenes are so convincingly presented that one feels that one is right there, in Bagdad, where Iraqi General Mohammed Al-Rawi (Ygal Naor) is meeting with his aides and talking about the invasion of Iraq early in the morning of March 19th, 2003. Al-Rawi suggests that they wait until the Americans arrive and perhaps make his army an offer to join their forces.

Four weeks later: Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his squad are rapidly coming to the conclusion that the information they have received regarding the whereabouts of WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) is far from accurate! In a situation like this, whom can one rely on for the truth? Even politically-motivated fellow Americans can be suspect. So, is Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) of Pentagon Special Intelligence really what he proports to be? And what about translator Freddie (Khalid Abdalla)... who has only one leg and a "penchant for Bryan Adams"? And then there's CIA Bagdad bureau chief Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson); and cute Lawry Dane (Amy Ryan), the foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

I would otherwise have awarded this film five stars... but Paul Greengrass, who had previously directed The Bourne Supremact and The Bourne Ultimatum, had me somewhat confused in the fast-moving climactic sequence near the end. However, it still remains an excellent example of the genre, and is well worth seeing.

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert.

Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.

Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region.

And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.

General

Studio:	Universal Home Entertainment
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	July 2010
Actors:	Matt Damon • Greg Kinnear
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Running time:	1 hour, 55 minutes
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Audio format:	Dolby Digital 5.1
Age restriction:	16 LV
Categories:	DVD > Action DVD > War DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XNE-6FP-4FH-7
Barcode:	6003805127266

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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 | Review by: Carlisle Johnson

This movie is certainly full of bullets and explosions and lots of tense war action, but the story is just too weak. Plus, it offers nothing new. It seems very anti-American and is merely bashing the country for going to war. A commendable stance, but it should have at least had a decent storyline to accompany it. Also, there's no character to align the audience with. And the director, Paul Greengrass, once again adopts the same handheld-camera action fetish he's displayed in his previous movies ("The Bourne Ultimatum" and "United 93"), but here they just manage to induce a major headache.

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