"Green Zone" Film Review
It's not the "The Hurt Locker" but it still kicks some terrorist tail. (Now on DVD) 3 Stars Blog exclusive! The Green Zone is an ironic name for a place in war-torn Baghdad. When I think of the color green I conjure up images of flora and fauna, not life and death situations. But in the heat of battle the difference between living and dying has a lot to do with lady luck. So it’s only natural that in director Paul Greengrass' (The Bourne Ultimatum) “Green Zone” instability rules, and death is everything but a distant reality. Matt Damon (The Informant!) is Chief Miller, a US Army soldier in charge of a WMD seek-and-destroy unit during Operation Iraqi Freedom. As days turn to weeks and no WMD's (Weapons of Mass Destruction) are found - despite numerous intelligence reports from the Pentagon - Miller grows increasingly concerned that the information he was given is faulty. When a suspicious Iraqi citizen comes forward with potentially game-changing intelligen...