People are voting emotionally.

not horrible nor great

Fantastic!

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

With the team up of star Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass having proven successful with The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, it perhaps isn't surprising that the two would team-up again so soon after what was initially seen as the final film in the Bourne franchise. What the pair made was a film that dealt with many of the same themes of distrust and questionable US government motives. The difference? This one was set firmly in the recent past in the immediate aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. That film was Green Zone and the results were compelling.Green Zone is on the surface a fairly straightforward thriller. Damon plays Roy Miller, a US Army chief warrant officer leading a team around Iraq in search of the WMDs that were the cause of the invasion. Miller's team comes up empty again and again causing the soldier to raise questions with his superiors. His hunt for answers leads him through a series of characters ranging from a Defense Department Special Intelligence official, a CIA officer, a journalist who did the initial reporting on WMDs, and a series of Iraqis. It also takes in those things audiences have come to expect from Greenglass and Damon: chase sequences, firefights, and a driving narrative.The film is anchored though by a solid cast. Like with the Bourne films, Damon's performance as Miller is the heart of the film as he takes the viewer along on a journey across the width and breadth of the early days of the conflict from battling it out against snipers at a suspected WMD site to inside the titular Green Zone where American officials are trying to determine the future of Iraq back onto the streets for the film's conclusion. Damon portrays Miller as a good soldier trying to do his duty and, in the process of doing so, discovering some less than appealing truths along the way and its that everyman quality Damon has which sells it solidly.The supporting cast is solid as well. They range from Greg Kinnear as a DOD official Poundstone who is trying to dictate the future of Iraq from inside the Green Zone, Amy Ryan as the journalist trying to get the scoop of interviewing the WMD source, Brendan Gleeson as the local CIA chief, an almost unrecognizable Jason Issacs as a special forces soldier, and Khalid Abdalla as Iraqi who ends up becoming Miller's translator. None of these roles (or those of the members of Miller's team) are especially showy but together they present a compelling cast of characters that populate the world of the film.It's that world that is the soul of the film. Greengrass and screenwriter Brian Helgeland use the thriller plot to explore the invasion of Iraq and its immediate aftermath. It highlights the incredible disconnect between the reality of what was happening in the streets and those making decisions inside the comfort of the Green Zone (and by extension in Washington as displayed in one scene early on in the film). While the film takes cues both from journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book Imperial Life In The Emerald City and the later revelations about the source of WMD claims and the planning for a new Iraq, it remains a solid thriller albeit one that beautifully illustrates the differences between the reality and the perception in the early months of the war.Perhaps no scene better illustrates this than one approximately midway through the film. Damon's Miller visits the Green Zone decked out in full desert camo uniform with a couple of his men in tow to speak with Gleeson's CIA chief. They arrive only to find themselves standing by the pool at the Republican Palace that was until recently the preferred residence of Saddam Hussein. Except it has the air, not of a war zone, but some vacation resort with people drinking beer and eating pizza as beautiful women in bikinis walk by.It's a startling moment for character and viewer alike and it highlights nicely how the situation in Iraq became the way it did.

This movie is based on the non-fiction book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" that documented life in the Green Zone in Baghdad during the 2003 Iraq invasion. I never read the book so I don't know how much truth is behind the film but I am impressed at how critical it is of the American society. The plot revolving around a non-existent WMD (weapon of mass destruction) is suspenseful. I really like the raw and truthfulness of the film.Two quotes stuck with me from this film: 1) Freddy to Miller: "It is not for you to decide what happens here." I think that's like a reality check. (Speaking in the context of the film) The Americans were too caught up with power and the idea they were doing a good thing because democracy is good to really care of the sufferers, the locals.2) General Al Rawi to Miller: "Your government wanted to hear the lie, Mr. Miller...". For some reason this really stuck me as the truth of our actual society and the whole point of the movie.

Intense from beginning to end, this movie throws you into the thick of it immediately with a powerful opening scene in Baghdad, including a firefight and general chaos in the streets. The action never stops and the story is good, with Matt Damon playing chief warrant officer Roy Miller. He spends the movie dealing with booby traps and cover ups alongside his guide/translator/hostage "Freddie", while searching for WMD in Iraq during the U.S occupation in 2003.I really should have enjoyed this more than I did. Matt Damon is on target throughout, wherever this was filmed looks like Iraq, the sub-actors are good and the conspiracy theory is well played out. This had everything going for it but for some reason almost immediately I got kind of bored.It was weird actually and I can't put my finger on why but I found this dry and dull which was not at all in tune with how I should have been feeling considering the heightened events taking place on the screen. I also generally like conspiracy theory type thrillers and as I said there was nothing glaringly wrong here. But still.I have to mention Jason Isaacs who plays a sort of bad guy here. I didn't even recognize him until I saw his name in the credits. How do these Brits continually pull off such great American accents? I also enjoyed Brendan Gleeson and of course Greg Kinnear who plays a morally corrupt, sneaky, slime-bag. 12/28/14

"Green Zone" is a 2010 film starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass based on the book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran.Matt Damon plays Roy Miller, a Chief Warrant Officer who in 2003 is sent to Iran to find weapons of mass destruction.He can't find any.The search for WMD was in part instigated by the Pentagon's man in Baghdad, Poundstone (Greg Kinnear). When no weapons are found, Miller wonders why the intel is so bad. A Wall Street Journal reporter, Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan) tells Miller that Poundstone had secret talks in Jordan with someone with the code name Magellan, who claims there are weapons. Miller endeavors to get at the truth.Very interesting story with lots of action, and a good premise. I confess I haven't read the book so I have no idea how much is based on fact.The acting was very good. The director used a hand-held camera for some of the action scenes. I'm like another person who reviewed on this site. It doesn't really bother me.This film didn't do well at the box office; in fact, it didn't even break even. I know sometimes seeing a film in the theater is a different experience, but seeing it as a rental, it was good.