Green Zone (2010)
Treading the thin line between fiction and “inspired by real events” we have this thriller set in Iraq shortly after the 2003 invasion. Matt Damon stars as a delta force soldier determined to get to the bottom of why his unit keep turning up to suspected WMD sites and finding nothing.
This is a good tense thriller that keeps the pace going well to the end. Plot wise the ending is a little predictable and preachy but for once it is nice that the CIA are not the bad guys. There are some good action sequences that seem fairly authentic to the untrained eye but they do become a little confusing in places, no doubt supposedly to mimic the confusion of real war but this is a fairly weak defence in my opinion. As a thriller this is a very good film, as a discussion of the of the handling of Iraq after the invasion it is too heavy handed and a little simplistic.
Defiantly worth watching despite it's flaws 4/5.
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