There. We said it in a lot fewer words than any of the other film critics.
Matt Damon, one of Hollywood’s leading leftists, stars in this vile waste of celluloid in which the audience is encouraged to cheer for the good guys. Unfortunately, the good guys are the ones who are killing Americans.
Consider Green Zone convincing evidence that it’s a lot easier to write a screenplay than it is to write history.
Here are some other reviews that aren’t quite as succinct as ours:
“Green Zone” looks at an American war in a way almost no Hollywood movie ever has: We’re not the heroes, but the dupes. Its message is that Iraq’s fabled “weapons of mass destruction” did not exist, and that neocons within the administration fabricated them, lied about them and were ready to kill to cover up their deception. – Roger Ebert
It’s a deeply flawed fictionalization of events widely believed to be true (but still unproven) about the political corruption of the U.S. military, which, in backroom collusion with the alleged lies and greed of the George Bush administration, plunged us into an illegal war in Iraq we can’t get out of. – Rex Reed
Greengrass and screenwriter Brian Helgeland have devised a storyline, involving a committed but quickly skeptical soldier’s search for weapons of mass destruction, that comfortably doubles as an incisive critique of the false premise upon which the Bush Administration based its invasion. – Variety
We all know now the weapons that prompted the invasion of Iraq did not exist. The filmmakers concoct a simple-minded WMD conspiracy to explain the bad intelligence reports, then lob Miller into the middle of it. – David Germain
One of the charges against the Bush Administration was that it sought to encase Iraq in a narrative far too naïve and restrictive for any nation to bear; and, in its small way, “Green Zone,” a left-wing movie that looks and sounds like a right-wing one, suffers from the same delusion. – New Yorker
The movie never walks when it can run, never runs when it can race with bullets flying overhead, and never leaves room for a sentient audience to draw its own conclusions when the filmmakers can poke a finger in our collective chest and growl, ”Look how Bush and company screwed up here and here and HERE.” – Entertainment Weekly
The Green Zone. One can only hope the explosion from this bomb is bigger than any IED.
Source: Verum Serum
