Film Impressions

REVIEW: Green Zone

TRUTH HURTS

In Iraq, desperate people fight for water in a devastated.  And in the ‘Green Zone’, where the Americans are, bikini-clad women lounge by a pool, the battle raging outside is not even an echo on their luxurious haven.

Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone is scathingly critical of the US military role in Iraq, and it takes some courage to say that the Weapons of Mass Destruction that the US army went into the country to demolish, did not exist; the US government was aware of it, yet went ahead and took thousands of lives. Not only that, the men who came up with this web of deception did all they could to cover up their tracks.

REVIEW: Green Zone

COMMANDO COMICS RULE!

If you've grown up reading commando comics, then you can predict how the plot in the Matt Damon starrer Green Zone will progress, but you will enjoy it anyway.

Set in Iraq after the Americans have killed Saddam, the Green Zone follows Chief Warrant Officer Miller (Damon, quite competent in the tough soldier-in-fatigues role) and his loyal squad whose job is to locate WMDs. Miller finds no weapons biological or chemical but stumbles upon a conspiracy.