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A Matt Damon movie, the Green Zone is somewhat similar to his Bourne series of films. This movie is action packed just like the Bourne movies but instead of a spy thriller, it is a war drama. It’s set in 2003 and Damon and his team are searching for WMDs weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This films name refers to the area set up around the government grounds of the one time leader of the people of Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s palace also known as the Emerald City.

Onetime Washington Post Baghdad Bureau chief correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote a book by the same name and the movie is based on this book. The book’s author was there when the US troupes attempted to set up the temporary government on the Hussein former palace grounds. There have been many critics along the way that have noted this new government was built in somewhat of a glass castle which was so far removed from reality of the Iraq War that it could only fail in meeting the needs of the people being served in that country, something the US did not want.

The actual United States-led occupation of Bagdad is the bases for this fictional movie that spares no expense on all the thrilling drama. Director Paul Greengrass, who directed United 93 about the flight that went down in Pennsylvania on 9-11, and his screenwriting partner, Brian Helgeland used the book written by Chandrasekaran as a jumping off point for their movie. This movie tells the story of Damon’s character, an officer, who links up with a CIA agent, Brendon Gleeson from Beowulf and In Burges, to search for evidence that the country is hiding weapons of mass destructions. Gleeson’s character is a senior CIA bureau member but can only help Damon’s character so much.

Cast in the role of the New York Times foreign correspondent is Amy Ryan from the Office and Gone Baby Gone. She has traveled to Iraq to look into the accusations being lobbied from the US about the weapons of mass destruction. Greg Kennear of late night talk show fame and recently The Last Song, makes a special appearance as another CIA agent who is trying to spin the story to his liking and not necessarily to the truth or as the reporter might see things.

Damon’s character can only find out the source of Ryan’s information is Magellan and he hunts everywhere for the identity of this secret name. But Ryan is a true journalist and will not give up her source so it says as Magellan and the weapon’s of mass destructions remains a mystery. Damon’s character will even confront Ryan’s character about her sources but she holds fast to her journalistic convictions and will not reveal them. This only proves to thicken the plot.

Because of covert operations and faulty Intel, Damon’s character keeps coming up empty-handed and most of the time feels as if he’s being sent on a ‘wild goose chase’. There is so much information he is not privy to and most of the time he is caught in the middle of an unknown source of gunfire and people in his own unit trying to tell him to leave things the way they are. Damon’s soldier is a determined character and desperately wants to do the right thing for the people of Iraq and the American people, so he moves on.

It becomes clear that Damon’s character’s quest for the truth is the most valuable weapon of all when he’s kidnapped and then escapes in a battle-royal against several men. What he finds out after this is that Kinnear’s character has been working against him and not with him. With this part cleared up, there are still several unanswered questions.

By the end of the move, all questions should be answered, maybe leaving one or two for a sequel. Will Damon’s character help the rouge regimen in clearing up their act or will the violence continue to escalade to unstable conditions? The Green Zone is a great movie for those who love intrigue and war with their movies and non-stop action. Director Greengrass was also Damon’s director in two of the Bourne movies so audiences are guaranteed a great film.

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