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.
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,
12 Mar 2010
rotten:
Reduces policies that caused the deaths of thousands to the equivalent of a first-person-shooter video game.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
12 Mar 2010
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,
15 Mar 2010
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,
3 Jan 2011
rotten:
Green Zone is the rare miss from frequent collaborators Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass.