“Green Zone” presents its audience with a left-sided story of the war in Iraq that is set to entertain viewers and nothing else. People are already giving Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass heat for making another movie that shows the corruption of our government.
Paul Greengrass has directed past films like “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” which have the same type of anti-government corruption plot as “The Green Zone.”
Matt Damon as U.S. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller in "Green Zone."
So why do Greengrass and Damon participate in films like these? Well, because it is entertaining to see heroes’ fight for justice, especially against a government audiences know isn’t perfect.
Lets face it, war movies interest Americans, and as of late we don’t like to see perfect, cookie-cutter soldiers. We would much rather see hard-nosed soldiers who fight for what they believe in, especially if the enemy is ourselves.
“Green Zone” is coming out six days after the “Hurt Locker” raked in at the Oscars and Greengrass and Damon know what audiences like to see. “The Bourne Identity,” the last Jason Bourne installment, grossed over $227 million in the United States, and “Green Zone” shouldn’t do any less.
The movie is automatically recognized as a Greengrass-directed film because it is filmed terribly. Not terribly in the sense the movie is bad, but terribly in the sense Greengrass forgot to pack his tripod again. The camera is almost never steady but more in the hands of a lunatic who somehow works to add dramatic effect.
The plot is well formatted and perceived by audiences as truthful, although it does not claim to be. Damon plays a U.S. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller who has been assigned to find WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction). After flipping over one-too-many rocks to find nothing, and risking his men’s lives to do so, he seeks out the truth through his own means. He is helped by questionable (to say the least) character types that lead him down a rabbit hole he wished he never climbed into.
Audiences who enjoyed the Bourne movies are going to love this film. Even though Damon doesn’t play the same character, he still does a fantastic job of making audiences connect with his mission — and the mission is always the truth.
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It appears to me Mr. Dominguez doesn’t watch much of the news on TV or read any newspapers. What was brought out in this movie, if one was truly watching, is just how diabolical and corrupt the Bush Administration (?????) was. On that, I don’t understand why people call[d] him Mr. President when he was NEVER elected to that office. It was stolen with Daddy’s and of course oil money.