Watch The Film Green Zone

Back in 2003, there was much talk about WMD’s, weapons of mass destructions in Iraq. Matt Damon plays a character in Green Zone who leads a troupe into Iraq during this time period in order to locate the WMS’s only to find drama and intrigue, much like his famed Bourne series of movies. The Bourne movies were spy thrillers and this movie is a war drama and packs action at every turn. The colorful title refers to the Emerald City that was set up near former leader Saddam Hussein’s Place where much of the trouble begins and ends.

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.

Taking so much of the truth and stretching it until it become fiction is what director Paul Greengrass and screenwriter Brian Helgeland did with Chandrasekaran’s book. They used it as a starting point for the actual US led occupation of Bagdad to begin their movie. Greengrass was the director for United 93 about the plane crash in Pennsylvania on 9-11. This movie has Damon’s character linking up with a CIA agent, Brendon Gleeson of the popular Beowulf and In Burges, in order to search for evidence that the Iraq people or government, or both, are hiding WMDs. A senior CIA bureau member, Gleeson’s character and Damon’s character, an officer, can only help each other 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.

The quest for the truth has become the most valuable weapon in Damon’s character’s arsenal of tricks. He is kidnapped and in a fight to the finish, escapes to discover that Kinnear’s character have been working against him and not with him. After this scene, there are still many unanswered questions that leave audiences on the edge of their seats.

Many questions will be answered by the end of the film, such as will Damon’s character help a rouge regimen clear up their act or will the escalading violence continue to climb in such an unstable condition as to become a prelude to second movie? The Green Zone should be seen by everyone and anyone who enjoys suspense, war and intrigue in their movies. Director Greengrass is also the director of several of Damon’s Bourne movies; therefore audiences will not be disappointed.

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