Matt Damon is Chief Roy Miller, an American Army Team Leader in the Iraq war. His team’s job is to use intelligence sources to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Each site is empty and intelligence deemed false. Miller is angry at the time and effort wasted. When Miller finds a note book and a journalist he begins to investigate. The Green zone is the central area of Bagdad that was the government centre for the Iraq coalition. This area has been taken by Americans as America try to manufacture democracy.
The story takes a few twists and turns and is engaging. Unfortunately the ending action is bloated and drags on. Paul Greengrass is using his usual camera techniques that drive me crazy. We found that the effect of running everywhere with the camera man severely hampered our enjoyment of this film. Not only could we find ourselves infront of Matt Damon in the corridor and a second later behind him and a couple of seconds later right beside him which was confusing enough, we had to work out through the screaming of frightened Iraqis the machine gun fire and helicopter noise, who was shot and where we are. Yes ok if you want to experience war like it is first hand but in that case I would play Call of Duty on my Xbox.
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