Green Zone (2-Disc Limited Edition) [Blu-ray]

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Actor : Matt DamonActor : Jason IsaacsAspectRatio : 2.35 : 1AudienceRating : R (Restricted)Binding : Blu-rayBrand : Universal PicturesDirector : Paul GreengrassEAN : 0025195052979Format : AC-..read more

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Universal Pictures Green Zone (Blu-ray)Matt Damon reteams with his Bourne Supremacy director to create a thriller grounded in contemporary politics : the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) travels across war-tornIraq, pursuing the intelligence he’s been given, but every site indicated comes up empty of WMDs. Investigating the source of the intelligence, he finds himself caught between CIA agent Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson, 28 Days Later) and politician Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear, Little Miss Sunshine) over the identity of “Magellan,” the supposed source. As Miller tracks down an Iraqi general, he ends up further and further afield, facing danger from all sides. It’s hard to say which is the greater accomplishment–that Green Zone manages to turna still-volatile political issue into a propulsive action movie, or that it manages to depict Iraqipeople as individuals with a wide range of responses to what’s happened to their country. Damon’s performance is low-key but effective as Miller tries to maintain some semblance of moral clarity in acircumstance that muddies everything.

5 Reviews

  1. MovieFiend says:
    June 17, 2010 at 12:00 am

    I watched this movie at a friend’s house and I fell asleep about halfway through it. I was eager to watch it because I enjoyed the Bourne films (despite the constant camera-shakiness of Supremacy and Ultimatum) but this movie just wasn’t that captivating. I was only asleep for fifteen minutes or so and I woke up to see the ending and realized I could have stayed asleep. The very annoying shaky camera effects are back in play for this movie, and to me the plot for this movie wasn’t all that interesting. The whole “one soldier against the entire military/US government and the one soldier wins” is absurd. I think the acting was about the only good highlight. There were some parts that were interesting, but overall it was just a lackluster movie.

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  2. John Bowes says:
    June 16, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Forget the politics, despite the factual basis,this is a solid action flick. Damon does smart. That alone is enough to watch this.

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  3. M. IMRAN says:
    June 16, 2010 at 12:00 am

    I absolutely loved this movie when I saw it first in the cinema. Probably one of the most underrated movies so far this year. It failed at the box office probably due to the shaky camera during action sequences and a cliche script. But you’ve got to give credits to the ambitious plot that was based on the real reason why the US went to war in Iraq. The reason was always for the search for Weapons Of Mass Destruction (WMD). In real life, it was a failure as no WMD’s were found. This movie went all out in Hollywood fashion as we uncover the truth as to why the war started in the first place and the waste of resource used by the government for the search of the hidden WMD’s in Iraq. Many lives from both sides were lost during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, all for something that doesn’t exists in the country, the WMD’s.. As Matt Damon’s character mentioned in the movie, “The reason we go to war always matters!”.

    This movie is a good movie depending on how you see it, but its not a bad movie as some critics have made it out to be. Looking forward to the dvd release!

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  4. J. Kelly says:
    June 14, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Thankfully I didn’t invest any of my own money in this movie, but I did waste a couple hours of life. I won’t waste much more going into the numerous reasons this was a horrible movie. I know our country has it’s faults, but I’m trying to think of the last movie Damon made that cast America in a good light. He picks these “aren’t the U.S. and capitalism horrible” movies over and over again. Ironically, his love for creating a hate for this country is only outdone by his love of the profits it brings to him personally. I’m sure he jups at the chance to be in any movie that casts OTHER countries or thier leaders in a good light (Invictus). I guess I shouldn’t expect much from a guy who idolizes Howard Zinn though.

    Don’t buy this CD. If you own it, melt it.

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  5. Dennis E. Math says:
    June 10, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Matt Damon has been in some good movies but he should re-think his notions of appearing in vehicles that follow his twisted political beliefs. The movie bombed and justly so. Pure crap.

    Lets get Morgan Freeman to play a lynchable Barack Obama. THAT I would pay to see.

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