So I saw 'Green Zone'

It's a movie about the Iraq war and it has a message, which says: where's the WMD, the reason the US went to war with Iraq?

Three times CWO Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his men had conducted raids on sites suspected of hiding WMD, and three times they had returned empty-handed. Now, it was Bush who said, "... fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can't get fooled again," and so, suspecting there's something fishy about the intel he's been feeding on, Miller decides to poke around and to raise a stink all while creating friends and foes along the way in an exercise that will prove to be Jason Bourne's Training Day (2001), meaning that Miller's about to have a long, long day with a lot of shaky-cam effects.

While watching, somehow, for some reason, I was thinking about movies about the Vietnam war, e.g. Platoon (1986). They tend to be more contemplative, more raw. Green Zone, in the meantime, plays out more like a thriller.

Now, let's hear it from an Iraqi Oliver Stone.

(Running time: 115 minutes)

So I saw 'Shutter Island'

Leonardo DiCaprio's eyes can speak volumes. And that's probably why director Martin Scorsese has taken to him, which is just as well considering such clunkers as Blood Diamond (2006) and Body of Lies (2008) he's apt to find himself in when not in the maestro's employ.

In Shutter Island, Scorsese's latest, DiCaprio plays Teddy Daniels, a cop investigating the disappearance of a patient from an insular mental institution for the criminally insane with fellow cop Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo). A comment here, a gesture there can have story-wide implications, and when a storm rages over the island things start to unravel.

After the movie's ended, you'll find yourself tracing back the story. Just don't you work up a headache.

(Running time: 138 minutes)