Green Zone Paul Greengrass is quite a good director, who at one time shot a lot of good films, among which was quite an interesting "Lost Flight", but more less films about Bourne, just with the same Matt Damon in the title role. But in this picture he told a story so sluggish, implausibly looking, that even words do not exist.
In the “Green Zone” of occupied Iraq, territory under the control of the United States Army, CIA agents search in vain for traces of weapons of mass destruction. The bias of the investigation becomes apparent to Officer Roy Miller, who tried to make the results public. But how far can the generals who have decided at all costs to restore order in an unstable region go?
The film tells us the story of the initial invasion of Iraq when a mountain of political intrigues, such as conspiracies, false information, falsifications, is also unfolding along with military operations. The film is largely dominated by a personal story, which is very poorly disclosed. The focus is on Sergeant Miller, played mediocrely by Matt Damon. Weak acting, poorly revealed character of the hero, his behavior shows that he does rash actions. In general, although I like this actor, and in “The Departed” he played perfectly, but in this film he had the worst role of his career. Well, for example, in the same "The Lord of the Storm", which is also set in Iraq, the identity of the sapper James was revealed perfectly, but in this film was made a miss.
Also in this film was somewhat revealed the military theme. Of course, the main anti-war message is felt, and all this hatred of the actions of George W. Bush on the part of the director is also felt, and it is shown that politics and all these secret (and not only services) are ready to go to any lengths to make it profitable for their country. It is obvious that they do not think about people at all. And with all this anti-war message, they set the viewer up to the fact that the United States of America attacked Iraq, to put it mildly, basely. But because of the cast immediately feels that somehow all this looks too playful and unreal. The same Greg Kinnear who played Gay very well from “It’s Never Better” didn’t fit in so much and looked so funny. Provided that if there were other actors in the film and it didn’t look so sluggish, I’d put a + for the script. The film is very budgetary. About 100 million dollars, but if you look at the special effects, they are not very spectacular. Everything seemed to have been spent blowing up the tower in the very first minutes of the film. That's it. When shooting, the focus was on the so-called amateur shooting (just like in the same “Lords of the Storm”), but if there because of this, the film looked realistic, then here it looks like... Well, to put it mildly, ridiculous. And with that kind of budget, especially... In general, we can say that in the script the film is quite good, but the director too much hit in the personal story, and because of the bad performance of the actor saw everything very poor. So the fact that the film is unsuccessful, you can write off the cast. If instead of Matt Damon, the actor was more suitable for this role, charismatic, everything could work out. Original