Rotten
Green Zone is the rare miss from frequent collaborators Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass.
Laremy Legel, Film.com
Green Zone
Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is done following orders
2010 · 1h 55m · R
Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Directed by
Paul Greengrass
Overview
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
Director and cast
- Paul Greengrass Director
- Matt Damon as Roy Miller
- Greg Kinnear as Clark Poundstone
- Brendan Gleeson as Martin Brown
- Amy Ryan as Lawrie Dayne
- Khalid Abdalla as Freddy
- Jason Isaacs as Maj. Briggs
- Igal Naor as General Al Rawi
- Said Faraj as Seyyed Hamza
- Raad Rawi as Ahmed Zubaidi
- Michael O'Neill as Colonel Bethel
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
53%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's one thing for the filmmakers to (sort of) fictionalize real people, but Green Zone wraps up with a wish-fulfillment fantasy that is about as believable as watching reinforcements riding in to save Custer.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
Greengrass concocts a formula with a fighting chance of dispelling the Curse of the Hollywood Iraq Movie. If a picture as conventionally accessible as Green Zone tanks, that campaign is surely lost.
Ben Walters, Time Out
Rotten
Reduces policies that caused the deaths of thousands to the equivalent of a first-person-shooter video game.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Green Zone hits hard and doesn't forgive. It plays out like fiction, and in some ways it is. But in too many ways, it's not.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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