Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Load of rubbish!!

How sad is this?

Fresh and Exciting

This film started well but failed to captivate me. The closing action sequences film being shot in the dark with shaky cam were painful to sit through. Its no surprise this film lost money.Im afraid this is a rare miss from paul greengrass

First things first. This is a thriller/action movie, regardless of the negative reviews from predominantly right-wing US reviewers.What I find particularly hilarious is that the same people will eat up the garbage of 13 hours and American Sniper as 'factual' because it suits their own political agenda, but decry anything that even remotely goes against that with the usual whining of 'Anti- American'. Here's a thought. Don't invade a sovereign nation illegally under false motives and people won't despise your nation for doing so.The movie itself is a well acted, scripted affair. I didn't actually notice the 'hand camera shakiness' until I started reading negative reviews on here. Apparently, I, like many other adults, are capable of following the movements of other human beings on the screen without them being tied to a rail. Who'da thunk it?Gritty, confusing and twisted sums up the storyline and Damon delivers once again. Greg Kinnear delivers his usual double-dealing politician role with gusto and Brendan Gleeson nails the image of the cynical, world-weary spook.Special mention must be made of Khalid Abdalla or 'Freddy'. He brings a poignant humanity to the movie with his ex-military Iraqi character, interested only in the welfare of his nation as a whole.Naturally, many will decry this as 'left wing propaganda', but we've been over that already. Make your own mind up. Do a bit of research about the joke that was the US intelligence effort prior to 2003. Watch the movie. Realise the debacle that Bush's war was and then tell me who's at fault.

There are still a few delusional souls out there who believe that United States' invasion of Iraq was a justified move & not an excuse to pursue its own interests. Using the veil of democracy, America went to war despite opposition from United Nations and, in the process, didn't just destabilise the entire Middle-East but also plunged Iraq into total chaos.Green Zone is a valiant attempt to show the corruption within the then-functioning US government and argues that the whole "disarming Iraq from weapons of mass destruction" was a charade, that the Bush administration manipulated evidence in order to gain public support, and that America itself is responsible for the sorry state Iraq has been in ever since.The story of Green Zone follows Roy Miller, the U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer whose platoon is assigned the duty of finding the so-called weapons of mass destruction but discovers nothing for several times in a row. Things are set in motion when, after meeting with a CIA veteran, Miller goes rogue in order to find the truth and ends up excavating much darker secrets than expected.Directed by Paul Greengrass (best known for Bloody Sunday, United 93 & The Bourne Ultimatum), Green Zone begins with an explosive prologue depicting the air strike on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad, following which the main plot surfaces. The film mixes fictional & factual elements into a single storyline but it isn't as effective as expected and feels more like Jason Bourne in Iraq than what it's supposed to be.The camera-work & editing aspects carry Greengrass' signature all over it. Production design team does a splendid job at recreating the post-invasion setting. Matt Damon does well in his given role yet he feels like a miscast because the effect of the previous collaboration between Greengrass & Damon spills into this feature and prevents it from making its desired impact, not to mention that the action in the second half is highly reminiscent of Jason Bourne flicks.On an overall scale, Green Zone is thought-provoking on more levels than one, remains intense for the majority of its runtime, and is expertly steered by Greengrass' smart direction & Damon's solid performance and yet, the very jolt that was expected given its subject matter is somewhat missing. It probably would've worked better if it had taken the route of a political thriller than an action flick, in addition to further polishing its script & adding more interesting characters. Definitely a missed opportunity.

(55%) A simply plotted early days of the Iraq war movie that doesn't dig too deep into politics and media edited history unlike the rather tiresome "Zero dark thirty", but rather tells its story in a much more manageable and believable manner. I don't really care much for Greengrass' style of direction, and I never have, as it can detract from whatever's going on which for me is a big no-no, but here it's not overly distracting. And with the plot being pretty basic to say the least the action is allowed to just get on with it, resulting in some quite exciting moments set around a realistic setting. Overall not a bad little movie by any means, just not something I'd want to pay money to watch.