Greengrass was on a role until this...

My oh my oh my! When are they going to stop making films about the Iraq war?! As far as I am concerned, none of them are different (except The Hurt Locker). I mean, look at Green Zone in comparison to say... The Kingdom. The plot might be a bit different but because it is in the exact same environment, very similar kinds of characters, they just feel the same. I am not taking away that it was well made and production went well but I just couldn't quite get the hang of this.


The plot unfolds deep in the highest ranks within the Iraqi military, where the country's army General who is hiding in Baghdad talks of an impeding American attack, where he proposes joining them. In the meantime, chief warrant officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team are busy combing off warehouses in Iraqi they believe hold weapons of Mass destruction to no avail. Miller then goes through a heap of drama which ranges from his top informant being taken into custody by hostile authorities, to realizing that one of the men he is supposed to trust immensely during the exercise is no more than the enemy within, and who happens to be sharing crucial information with the enemy. Miller finds himself on the receiving end when he is kidnapped by Al Rawi's (the Iraqi army commander) men before he kills his captors and then setting out to find the general who has already fled. This is Matt Damon's third collaboration with director Paul Greengrass and I have to say, it wasn't exactly as intense, explosive or exciting as their work together on The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum were.


Paul Greengrass has always been a director of making films with a fast pace, where the camera would move all over the place like it was a documentary and where it would involve action no matter what genre. I mean, yeah it was well filmed but I just thought the camera was too fast-paced and also I don't really think there was enough action as we saw in the trailer.


Overall, Green Zone is a film that I was overall disappointed with but was impressed with as far as production. Let's hope that Damon and Greengrass's next collaboration will be better than this one (hopefully going to be the fourth Bourne film).

6/10