Green Zone
Green Zone was established after the 2003 invasion as a Baghdad American Military safe haven in the immediate vicinity of Saddam’s former palace. In this Matt Damon action thriller activity outside of the Green Zone is not so safe and enemy combatants are not the most lethal adversaries. Damon is Chief Warrant Office Miller repeatedly frustrated with faulty intelligence provided in his unsuccessful search for the elusive Weapons of Mass Destruction. His complaints fall on deaf ears especially those of State Department honcho Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) who has the press believing that a sequestered snitch named “Magellan” will lead them to the WMDs at the root of the Middle East invasion. Surprisingly at odds with this white house flack is the CIA in the form of Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson completely sans Irish lilt) who Miller finds himself turning to when he uncovers a notebook belonging to General Al Rawi (Yigal Naor) one of Saddam’s elite soldiers. The result sets Miller of on a wild mission to find Al Rawi, a mission where the biggest threat is not the Iraqi army but Special Forces from his own country. The Green Zone delivers a sharp slap in the face to US foreign policy as well as sloppy work by embedded media but from what we’ve known for some time about WMDs there isn’t much shock and awe from any bombshell the movie may think it’s dropped.