Green Zone (2010)

Release date: 2010-03-12
Country: UK|France|Spain|USA
Language: English|Arabic
Director: Paul Greengrass
Production Co: Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Relativity Media
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Rating: 6.8/10
Length: 1h 55min

Storyline

Following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his men are charged with finding the so-called weapons of mass destruction, whose existence justified American involvement, according to the Pentagon and their man in Baghdad, Poundstone. Veteran CIA operative Marty tells Miller that there are no weapons, it is a deception to allow the Americans to take over the country and install a puppet leader. Also suspicious of Poundstone is Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne, who lets slip to Miller that Poundstone told her he had secret talks in Jordan with an important Iraqi, code-named Magellan, who told him about the weapons, though it now seems likely Magellan's true information was to the contrary. So begins a hunt for the truth. Who's playing whom?

Plot Keywords

cia, iraq war, general, bodyguard, assassination, shot in the head, pool of blood, fire fight, handheld camera, ak 47, machine gun, semiautomatic pistol, shot in the back, subtitled scene, bomb, shot to death, shot in the stomach, shot in the chest, politics, special forces

Short Review

I don't like polemics, not even those supporting my position. This film does not support my position...the movie contains far too little in terms of a coherent, believable plot.