Matt Damon rocks in GZ.
Added 3/18/2010
Please everyone watch the most intelligent and action packed (!) movie of the year: Green Zone- starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass (the director of Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum) Also, Damon played Bourne
I have seen a screening of this. It's superb. You have to use your mind quite a lot. The action is magnificent, though the script is a tad bit too inspired from other movies and it has some half-baked political statements. It's still fun to watch and intelligent. The best movie of the year so far. Damon rocks in this.
9.1/10
EDIT: Underrated, anyone? >:(
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Shaky Camera
Added 3/16/2010
I shall pass on this one. I saw a short clip on Bill O'Rielly and the camera was bouncing all over the place. This may be a lovely new technique for some but it makes me sick!
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Convoluted thriller
Added 3/15/2010
"Green Zone" stars Matt Damon as Warrant Officer Roy Miller, leader a battalion in 2003 Iraq charged with finding the elusive "weapons of mass destruction." However, every time they are given intelligence, it turns out to be wrong. Extremely wrong. Toilet factory wrong. Miller starts to question his superiors about the source of the intel, which raises some hackles, but also attracts the interest of the CIA bureau chief in Baghdad, Martin Brown (played by Brendan Gleeson). Miller's frustration mounts when his team is sent to what turns out to be a playground; however, his luck turns when a local resident approaches the team and informs them about a meeting of high-level Iraqis just down the street. Miller is skeptical but decides to investigate, and his team stumbles upon the number two man in Saddam Hussein's toppled government. Unfortunately, not everyone in the allied forces is pleased, and Miller finds himself not knowing who to trust and at the center of a confusing web of intelligence.
At this point, quite a few movies have been made about the Iraqi war, all focusing on slightly different aspects of the war and with different political slants and agendas. The best of these movies (Stop-Loss, The Hurt Locker) have taken on very specific aspects of the war and informed the public. "Green Zone" attempts to take on a broader and more controversial issue - whether we should have been there in the first place and whether the intelligence that led us into Iraq was good. Unfortunately, the plot details regarding that issue are fictionalized. So what is the purpose? The movie cannot illuminate for us whether we should have engaged in this war, so it serves only to add fuel (fictionalized fuel!) to the fire for those who have argued that the war was started under false pretences.
Of course, war movies have long served as entertainment, and "Green Zone" was brought to us by the same team (Damon and director Paul Greengrass) who made "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum," so one might expect a smashing good thriller. As such, "Green Zone" is fairly well done. There are some exciting segments where Miller slowly realizes what is happening as well as a few decent action scenes. However, it's a much noisier and chaotic and therefore less enjoyable film than any of the Bourne series, and it never develops the tension those movies instill. Also, let's face it - the superior Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker" elevated the war genre; "Green Zone" feels surprisingly old-fashioned and pointless in contrast. "Green Zone" is ultimately a decent, above average thriller but don't expect much else.
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Another Hollywood Propoganda Film
Added 3/14/2010
Here we go again .. yet another example of Hollywood in all it's ignorance of real world intelligence and history making a movie that is nothing more than a thinly veiled propoganda tool.
It seems guys like Damon, Clooney and others have confused their ability to act and make believe in the world of film making with the complexities of the real world.
An otherwise potentially good film plot was ruined by this movie's overbearing preaching, conspiracy theory perpetuation and excessive left leaning political slant.
It is always better when film makers lift themselves ABOVE mundane daily politics and have their movies portray Universal Values and messages.
Instead, this film gets sucked into the muck and mire of the daily politics we see in the world of FOX NEWS -vs- CNN NEWS. As a result it gets warped into nothing more than an excuse for some film makers in Hollywood to vent their political views and stand on a soapbox for 100 minutes trying to sway public sentiment to their way of thinking.
Pretty forgettable. This film will probably make less than $40 million and dissapear from people's minds in less than 30 days.
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The reasons we go to war always matter
Added 3/14/2010
Matt Damon has become one of the most politically active Hollywood types out there so you know a film about Iraq with him in the lead role is going to have a strong message. This is of course the case with 'Green Zone.' Damon plays Chief Roy Miller, a US Army WMD specialist whose unit scours Baghdad for the weapons in the opening weeks of the current Iraq war. Paul Greengrass, who did the last two Bourne films with Damon, directed this, and like Bourne Ultimatum, GZ has much of the shaky handheld camera work that makes the film a bit difficult to watch at times. Not recommended if you suffer from motion sickness. That being said, it was a decent but not exceptional film. Basically, Miller finds out he is on a wild goose chase to find the WMDs and once he discovers that the whole reason for the invasion is basically bogus, he decides to do something about it. I like Brendan Gleason (he plays a CIA officer here) but I thought his accent was horrible here which threw off his whole performance. Damon, Kinnear and others give good performances but I thought the film's message was a bit too blatant and redundant. That being said, the film puts the lie to those who would accuse the war criticizers or skeptics of not "supporting the troops." If anything, it's a condemnation of those who callously put our heroic men and women in harm's way for the sake of achieving their own political purposes. 3.5 stars
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Matt Damon rocks in GZ.
Added 3/18/2010
Please everyone watch the most intelligent and action packed (!) movie of the year: Green Zone- starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass (the director of Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum) Also, Damon played Bourne
I have seen a screening of this. It's superb. You have to use your mind quite a lot. The action is magnificent, though the script is a tad bit too inspired from other movies and it has some half-baked political statements. It's still fun to watch and intelligent. The best movie of the year so far. Damon rocks in this.
9.1/10
EDIT: Underrated, anyone? >:(
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Shaky Camera
Added 3/16/2010
I shall pass on this one. I saw a short clip on Bill O'Rielly and the camera was bouncing all over the place. This may be a lovely new technique for some but it makes me sick!
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Convoluted thriller
Added 3/15/2010
"Green Zone" stars Matt Damon as Warrant Officer Roy Miller, leader a battalion in 2003 Iraq charged with finding the elusive "weapons of mass destruction." However, every time they are given intelligence, it turns out to be wrong. Extremely wrong. Toilet factory wrong. Miller starts to question his superiors about the source of the intel, which raises some hackles, but also attracts the interest of the CIA bureau chief in Baghdad, Martin Brown (played by Brendan Gleeson). Miller's frustration mounts when his team is sent to what turns out to be a playground; however, his luck turns when a local resident approaches the team and informs them about a meeting of high-level Iraqis just down the street. Miller is skeptical but decides to investigate, and his team stumbles upon the number two man in Saddam Hussein's toppled government. Unfortunately, not everyone in the allied forces is pleased, and Miller finds himself not knowing who to trust and at the center of a confusing web of intelligence.
At this point, quite a few movies have been made about the Iraqi war, all focusing on slightly different aspects of the war and with different political slants and agendas. The best of these movies (Stop-Loss, The Hurt Locker) have taken on very specific aspects of the war and informed the public. "Green Zone" attempts to take on a broader and more controversial issue - whether we should have been there in the first place and whether the intelligence that led us into Iraq was good. Unfortunately, the plot details regarding that issue are fictionalized. So what is the purpose? The movie cannot illuminate for us whether we should have engaged in this war, so it serves only to add fuel (fictionalized fuel!) to the fire for those who have argued that the war was started under false pretences.
Of course, war movies have long served as entertainment, and "Green Zone" was brought to us by the same team (Damon and director Paul Greengrass) who made "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum," so one might expect a smashing good thriller. As such, "Green Zone" is fairly well done. There are some exciting segments where Miller slowly realizes what is happening as well as a few decent action scenes. However, it's a much noisier and chaotic and therefore less enjoyable film than any of the Bourne series, and it never develops the tension those movies instill. Also, let's face it - the superior Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker" elevated the war genre; "Green Zone" feels surprisingly old-fashioned and pointless in contrast. "Green Zone" is ultimately a decent, above average thriller but don't expect much else.
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