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Green Zone (2010)

Directed by Paul Greengrass

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Most recently watched by sensoria, sleestakk

Overview

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are 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 threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

Rated R | Length 115 minutes

Actors

Matt Damon | Greg Kinnear | Brendan Gleeson | Amy Ryan | Khalid Abdalla | Jason Isaacs | Igal Naor | Said Faraj | Raad Rawi | Michael O'Neill | Tommy Campbell | Jerry Della Salla | Faycal Attougui | Aymen Hamdouchi | Nicoye Banks | Sean Huze | Michael J. Dwyer | Edouard H.R. Gluck | Brian Siefkes | Adam Wendling | Abdul Henderson | Paul Karsko | Robert Miller | Eugene Cherry | Alexander Drum | Brian VanRiper | Matthew Knott | Nathan Lewis | John Roberson | Troy Brown | Bijan Daneshmand | Bryan Reents | Michael Judge | Patrick St. Esprit | Allen Vaught | Paul Rieckhoff | Martin McDougall | Antoni Corone | Timothy Ahern | Ben Sliney | Whitley Bruner | Intishal Al Timimi | Driss Roukhe | Muayad Ali | Jamal Selmaoui | Mohamed Kafi | Kadhum Sabur | Hillal Boubker | Soumaya Akaaboune | Thamou El Metouani | Salah Eddine Elamari | Naji El Jouhary | Aroun Benchkaroun | Hajar Machroune | Scott Berendes | Abdelkrim Assad | Michael Diaz | Tyler Christen | Adam Mackey | Ben Holland | Jeffrey John Carisalez | Jonathan Stone | James Hodges | Larry Lewis | William Oakes | Ziad Adwan | Ian Bendel | Venie Joshua | Miguel Berroa | Peter Shayhorn | Miguel Palaugalarza | Christopher Lilly | Sabir Ed-Dayab | Omar Berdouni | Alex Moore | Alistair Bailey | Eric Loren | Paul Cloutier | Wallace Bagwell | William Meredith | James Wills | Jered Bezemek | Johnny Nilsson | Salman Hassan | Ammar Khdir | Youssif Falah-Jassem | Latif Al Anzi

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Viewing Notes

Paul Greengrass is one of my favorite directors. Green Zone is his weakest film, but Greengrass is one of those filmmakers whose worst films are better than 99% of movies released every year.

Green Zone features incredibly staged action, an interesting story and a strong lead performance by Matt Damon. I enjoyed the film, though I didn’t have any kind of emotional connection with the story as a whole.

Still, Greengrass impresses on most levels. My only gripe is most the climax of the film takes place at night. Shaky Cam and night shooting don’t work very well. Still worth checking out.

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