stupid

People run around with guns. Things explode. WMD shocks (not!). All a bit tedious really, but well-done tedium.

A little late in the game for this kind of story, but that'd not going to matter a few years from now. Technically proficient, each hectic film-making aspect driving this hectic storyline, boasting realism and hurriedness that only auteur Greengrass can achieve.

After seeing it the first time, I forgot about it. When I saw it a second time, I thought it was pretty good and couldn't see how I forgot it the first time.

Green Zone is a mixed bag. The action sequences are nothing we haven't seen before and aren't really all that exciting. The characters are one dimensional. But the strength of the film lies in its summing up of the failings by the media and US political establishment in the Iraq invasion. When Damon figures out the WMD justification is baloney, the reaction of the Iraqi characters is a justified "so what? How does that help us now?" There the film suggests there are no easy solutions to Iraq.

manages to be entertaining while staking out its position on the wmd "issue"

Crappy script, but well shot overall. Matt Damon and the rest of the American cast get out-acted by a one-legged Iraqi guy I've never heard. Actually Matt Damon still seems to playing a slightly older and more tired Jason Bourne, only this time his surroundings look a little more like the set and cast of Black Hawk Down. Despite the weaknesses, however, the film delivers a good level of intensity. Well shot and well paced.

matt damon. the thinking man's ben affleck

Interesting enough military thriller.

Green Zone frustrated me to no end. The plot follows an Army Warrant Officer searching for WMD's who becomes disheartened from the failure of military intelligence to located them and begins to question it. Yet, when he orders his men to do a risky mission on a mere hunch of his he rebukes those that question his logic with the phrase, "Get your game face on!" How dare they question him? This film had some decent action and was not a total failure yet I couldn't help but feel dissapointed.

I wish this movie wasn't based on fact.

Admitting that America lied about the WMD's seems to be a noble thing for an American movie to do but it starts to seem less noble when it goes on to say that it was not America that lied but that certain 'bad guys' within American hierarchy lied to certain 'good guys', and still less when it tells a fairy tale in which one of these good guys puts his neck on the line to set the record straight. Preposterous! All this BS aside, this is a watch-and-forget action movie suitable for passing time.

Enjoyable, but that's about it

This one is so underrated, probably for the political reasons or the wrong marketing treating as a Bourne flick. Greengrass and Helgeland managed to create a solid political thriller. The only problem might be it kinda has no soul, when you compare to other Greengrass works.

Okay Movie

Damon has perfected looking down his nose at his superiors, fellow grunts, shifty-swarthy Iraqis -- and us. It is an insidious, racist, fascist characterization.

This was a fun action movie with a decent plot.Matt Damon for the limited range he has as an actor was good in this film.The ending was fast paced and entertaining.

Fantastically put-together and performed film that leaves too many loose ends to be completely satisfying. While that could be the point, I feel like it misses the mark.

Amazing. A film with absolutely no character development. Why are any of these characters acting the way they do. Can we at least explore that just a little bit? Matt Damon comes close to committing treason like a bunch of times but we never REALLY find out what is driving him.

Story's not great, but it makes an excellent excuse to make a movie I suspect Greengrass was all too eager to make. And it's a good thing he did, because part from the screenplay, everything else in this movie is superb: the camera-work is like the Bourne Ultimatum on high-cafeined espresso, Damon is surely enjoying himself, which shows - and the setting is perfect.