Green Zone
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6.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 177 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 128 out of 177
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 177
  3. Negative: 30 out of 177

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  1. MarkM
    Mar 20, 2010
    3
    I really wanted to like this film. I'm as liberal as anyone but this was way over the top in my opinion. "Wish fulfillment" is the best diagnosis of what went wrong here--with crappy dialog and overly simplistic, one-dimensional characters (poor Greg Kinnear) it felt like a 12-year-old writing a historical-fiction war story for a creative writing assignment. Normally like Ebert, but he was way, way too kind to this film. Entirely forgettable film meant to cheaply evoke frustration over a national tragedy for commercial gain.… Collapse
  2. IsaacV.
    Jun 22, 2010
    3
    Just didn't really enjoy it. not deep enough and the action is pretty sensless. Very little good things to say about this film.
  3. JoshW
    Mar 14, 2010
    0
    This movie is driven purely by politics, complete revisionism covered up with cosmetic truths about the beginning of the war. Again Hollywood insults us with the belief that we care about their political opinions.
  4. JamesF.
    Mar 12, 2010
    0
    Silly hyper liberal BS. Newsflash folks, we won.
  5. GregF
    Mar 13, 2010
    0
    It's not surprising that Damon would agree to star in a movie that is just another slice of 'progressive' pie.
  6. JasonB
    Mar 13, 2010
    2
    Anti-republican propaganda at it's best.
  7. Eddie
    Mar 13, 2010
    1
    Complete distortions of the facts!! Hopefully this movie will bomb!
  8. JohnN
    Mar 13, 2010
    0
    Worst Iraq/Afghan movie, ever! Not realistic in the least. Boring and slow. I actually walked out of the movie, because the identity of "Magellan" was to obvious....and, the scenes are just not anywhere close to authentic. Really, troops riding around with no doors on the vehicles? Bikinis and beer? Really?!? Not a shread of research was done to make this movie reflect the actual conditions in Iraq. Zilch. I was angry, and sleepy---so, I left. Don't waste your money.… Expand
  9. SP
    Mar 21, 2010
    0
    Boring movie. Wish I hadn't gone to see it.
  10. JohnF
    Mar 13, 2010
    1
    If you believe that Bush lied us into war and we fought it "because of WMD" in order to impose a "modern Democracy" there, you will love this film. Amazing that this crude, awful script was greenlighted, even by these Brits (Greengrass, Fellner, Bevan, etc.). Loved the last shot of the oilfield, guys. And really clever having Judy Miller work for the Wall Street Journal instead of the NY Times. One cliche after another, including the handheld visuals which were a carbon copy of "Hurt Locker"'s. It was, quite simply embarrassing to watch.… Expand
  11. ReeceN
    Apr 2, 2010
    1
    General same-y sort of action film. Doesn't really bring anything new to the table of movies, and its a plot that sounds like bbc movie night, with a bigger budget! I almost fell asleep multiple times and the only think that woke me up was when I went to the toilet, and stopped off at the candy counter on the way back. Although through this, I thought the filming and camera work, although nauseating at times, was quite good, but acting was really the same old action star stuff, not too persuasive.… Expand
  12. Jason
    Mar 15, 2010
    1
    The plot was very simple. The acting was aweful, and the action wasn't even that great. Add to that some nonsense about a government conspiracy that led us to war, and you get one bad movie.
  13. BobL
    Jun 24, 2010
    3
    One of the worst movies I've ever witnessed.
  14. sapient254
    Aug 27, 2010
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Green Zone is an obvious anti-Republican movie aimed at slandering the Bush party's decisions to invade Iraq. It portrays senior Republican leaders as oil-focused fact-creating greedy war-mongers that will do anything to keep the American public believing that WMDs exist in Iraq. From the start, the movie's agenda is painfully obvious as Matt Damon's character, Roy Miller, is in charge of a special task force whose sole purpose is to seek out Iraq's WMDs. As they go from site to site, donning chemical masks and special equipment designed to retrieve them, they constantly come up short. As Miller looks through his intelligence reports, once phrase continues to pop out at him (mostly because it's written in bold red text): "A source has confirmed that chemical and biological weapons are stored..." etc.
    "What's the source?" Miller asks during an intelligence briefing. "These intelligence packets have all been vetted. They're good.", says a high ranking puppet of the Bush party. "You're job's to execute them, not worry about how they're put together." As the movie progresses, we are led to believe that High ranking military officials, senior leaders of Special Intel Units at the Pentagon, and members of the Special Forces are all working together to cover up the truth about the existence of WMD's in Iraq. Do the creators of this movie believe we are all so gullible? Do they honestly think that we are to believe that our senior leaders used made-up intelligence and sacrificed countless American and Iraqi lives as a front to invade Iraq for the sole purpose of tapping into their oil reserves? Though the creators of this movie did not mention oil at all during the course of the film, they made their statement obvious during the ending credits as Damon drives off into the distance with a nice oil refinery backdrop. Again we come across Hollywood's pathetic attempts to use their seemingly countless movie-funds as a weapon against those who are unsure of their political stance, or those just too ignorant to know better. Well I for one am not won over, nor am I fooled.    … Expand
  15. psychdoctor
    Jan 24, 2011
    1
    In short: Trash. I went into this movie cold; not knowing the plot or movieâ
  16. CharlotteP
    Apr 13, 2011
    2
    I was ill-disposed towards this film almost from the start due to a physical aversion to the jerky camera work which now seems to plague every film of a certain type: spending millions of dollars to make it look as though the action scenes are filmed by a passer-by who's less than familiar with how to use their video camera (jumping up and down, unable to hold the thing still even in a static setting, zooming in and out of focus, on the wrong settings at night, and so on). All totally unnecessary, and guaranteed to induce queasiness almost immediately. Had the film been better, perhaps it wouldn't have mattered; but unfortunately this was an over-simplified, unconvincing and frequently irritating movie which raised many more questions than it answered.… Expand
  17. Mendax
    Jul 19, 2011
    0
    I've long believed that the more incompetent the Director, the more likely he/she will cut a film into untold billions of cuts. Loved the first Bourne movie. Nos. 2 & 3? No. And no-er. Do you really need 6 or 7 different 1 second shots showing a suitcase being put into a locker, or of someone entering a cab? Green Zone? Worthless. Irrespective of Ideology, a film should be viewable, watchable. Paul Greengrass, by this metric, is a complete hack. And this is the last movie of his I will ever see. Methinks Porn is his calling.… Expand

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Metascore
63 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    Dec 14, 2010
    100
    An expensive flop and the latest Iraq movie to be shunned by the mass audience, Green Zone was still the year's most visceral, thrilling entertainment.
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  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    63
    Miller's wake-up call is meant to be ours. Too little and too late? Maybe. But even in this Bourne Zone, Damon and Greengrass haven't shirked their duty to enlighten and entertain.
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  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    40
    For a while Green Zone generates genuine excitement, as well as plenty of provocation--a fatuous surrogate for Ahmed Chalabi, a pervasive scorn for American planning--but then goes off its own reservation into a won't-fly zone of awkward preachments and hapless absurdities.
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