| | Green Zone | 
| Director: Paul Greengrass
Actors: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson
Studio: Universal Pictures
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD61104849D
UPC: 025195040266
EAN: 0025195040266
ASIN: B002ZG97RE
Theatrical Release Date: March 12, 2010
Release Date: June 22, 2010
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DAMON STARS AS ROY MILLER, A ROGUE U.S. ARMY OFFICER WHO MUST HUNT THROUGH COVERT AND FAULTY INTELLIGENCE HIDDEN ON FOREIGN SOIL BEFORE WAR ESCALATES IN AN UNSTABLE REGION.
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Matt Damon reteams with his Bourne Supremacy director to create a thriller grounded in contemporary politics: the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) travels across war-torn Iraq, pursuing the intelligence he's been given, but every site indicated comes up empty of WMDs. Investigating the source of the intelligence, he finds himself caught between CIA agent Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson, 28 Days Later) and politician Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear, Little Miss Sunshine) over the identity of "Magellan," the supposed source. As Miller tracks down an Iraqi general, he ends up further and further afield, facing danger from all sides. It's hard to say which is the greater accomplishment--that Green Zone manages to turn a still-volatile political issue into a propulsive action movie, or that it manages to depict Iraqi people as individuals with a wide range of responses to what's happened to their country. Damon's performance is low-key but effective as Miller tries to maintain some semblance of moral clarity in a circumstance that muddies everything. Also featuring Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) as a compromised journalist and Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner) as an Iraqi civilian who gets dragged into far more than he expected. --Bret Fetzer
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Pure Propaganda September 5, 2010
Rick Wingender (Knoxville, TN)
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As a former US Army Infantry Officer, I thought this film would be especially interesting, and it was. However, it confirms my opinion of liberal hollywood people: that they're simply not very smart. That's why they become actors and actresses - because 98% of them weren't smart enough to become doctors or lawyers or businessmen. Most of them never even went to college. Because of this lack of education, most hollywood types lack any real talent for critical thinking.
This whole movie was a propaganda message, trying to convince the viewer that there never were any WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) in Iraq. First of all, too many people don't know what weapons qualify as a "WMD". As a US Army NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) school graduate, I can tell you that a WMD is any weapon - nuclear, biological, or chemical - that, if delivered by the proper delivery system, can or will cause massive casualties. So, if our hollywood leftists had any knowledge or critical thinking capabilities, they would not be so cynical of the claims of WMDs made by many governments. Why? Simple...because in the 1980s Iran - Iraq war, Saddam used chemical weapons (WMDs) against the Iranians. After the first Gulf war (Desert Storm), Saddam again used chemical weapons (WMDs) against his OWN people - the Kurds in northern Iraq. There is little dispute about these events, there's too much evidence for even Saddam to deny with a straight face. So, with his history of actually using WMDs, why does Hollywood find it so hard to believe? I think it's because they don't understand that chemical weapons ARE WMDs. I don't say any of this because I want to defend the US Government; I still think most of what we did was wrong, and I friggin' hate G.W. Bush the Idiot...I'm a Libertarian, not a liberal democrat nor a conservative Republican.
As far as the movie itself, the acting was excellent all around. Damon was incredible. Kinnear was surprisingly good, though I hated his character. I just think hollywood would serve us better if they spent more energy trying to create entertainment without injecting their biased and factually incorrect ideology into everything. RW.
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