Friday 19 March 2010

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)

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