Synopsis
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
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Cast
- Matt DamonRoy Miller
- Greg KinnearClark Poundstone
- Brendan GleesonMartin Brown
- Amy RyanLawrie Dayne
- Khalid AbdallaFreddy
- Jason IsaacsMaj. Briggs
- Igal NaorGeneral Al Rawi
- Said FarajSeyyed Hamza
- Raad RawiAhmed Zubaidi
- Michael O'NeillColonel Bethel
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Christopher Rouse's rapid-fire editing nervously stitches the stunts, chases, fights and confrontations together. It's a remarkable film. - 80
Empire
Bourne goes epic. A wham-bam actioner, but its pointed political subtext ensures Damon and Greengrass deliver their most provocative mission yet. - 80
Village Voice
A master of smash-mash montage and choreographed chaos, Greengrass is the best action director working today, adroit at producing the sense of everyone converging and everything happening simultaneously. - 70
Arizona Republic
To pretend that the film doesn't make a political statement is silly. Of course it does. It wouldn't be effective at all if it didn't. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
With Green Zone, though, the malaise has finally hit me. So while Damon's Miller uncovers the (inconvenient) truth of why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, all I want to know is: How does he suggest we get out? - 50
Variety
Once Damon's one-man truth squad goes off the reservation and starts behaving too much like Jason Bourne for comfort, the film begins not only spilling more blood but also leaking crucial credibility. - 40
Boxoffice Magazine
Green Zone is an exercise in commercial cowardice masquerading as a thriller about political bravery. - 40
New York Magazine (Vulture)
It's also rather tawdry. The climax is as ludicrous as any Jack Bauer adventure, and Greengrass is always on shaky ground. Literally.
