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.
As an army man -his fellow sergeant informs him - it is his job to carry out missions to find weapons of mass destruction and go back home alive. Miller, of course, is irritated by the failure in the information provided and registers a protest with the seniors at a de-briefing. And predictably finds a conspiracy.
The pace of action in the movie increases as Miller follows a hunch and uses a local (Khalid Abdalla, seen previously in The Kite Runner and brilliant here) to lead him to the Iraqi General Rawi (Yigal Naor, the unforgettable face from Munich and Rendition). The general holds the key to proving Miller's hunch about the faulty intel. But Miller's action lead him into trouble with the Iraqi army loyalists to the general and also the Pentagon official Poundstone (played very nicely by Greg Kinnear who manages to step out of his Tony Randall like roles) and his army operatives and he has to run for his life. And therein lies the climax of the movie, cleverly shot.
It is easy to guess whether the Democracy touting Pentagon guys are right or the CIA veteran Marty is telling the truth... but the action is so good you will enjoy the 'yessss!' moments when the bad guys are killed or thwarted. It's a fun masala combat film which should have released a week ago - would have been perfect spring break movie for Matt Damon fans.
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