
Following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his men are charged with finding the so-called weapons of mass destruction, whose existence justified American involvement, according to the Pentagon and their man in Baghdad, Poundstone. Veteran CIA operative Marty tells Miller that there are no weapons, it is a deception to allow the Americans to take over the country and install a puppet leader. Also suspicious of Poundstone is Wall Street... (Full plot summary below)
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Following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his men are charged with finding the so-called weapons of mass destruction, whose existence justified American involvement, according to the Pentagon and their man in Baghdad, Poundstone. Veteran CIA operative Marty tells Miller that there are no weapons, it is a deception to allow the Americans to take over the country and install a puppet leader. Also suspicious of Poundstone is Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne, who lets slip to Miller that Poundstone told her he had secret talks in Jordan with an important Iraqi, code-named Magellan, who told him about the weapons, though it now seems likely Magellan's true information was to the contrary. So begins a hunt for the truth. Who's playing whom?
Leave your thoughts about Green Zone.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt is a thriller, not a documentary. It's my belief that the nature of the neocon evildoing has by now become pretty clear. Others will disagree. The bottom line is: This is one hell of a thriller. |
| TimeRichard CorlissAn 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. |
| London Evening StandardAndrew O'HaganI can't believe people will not go to see Green Zone in their droves. I certainly hope they do, for it is a shocking, replenishing film, not to be missed. |
| The Movie KitKit BowenThink of this as the fourth Bourne adventure. |
| HitFixDrew McWeenyIf you can't get over the idea Greengrass is more interested in the emotional experience than any factual name-calling, "Green Zone" may be a film that doesn't work for you. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's never too late to hear the truth about the Iraqi War. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenIn a sense, "Green Zone" is a movie which goes to great pains to point out the obvious. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonGreengrass has made quite a raucous, energetic action movie to serve as the vehicle for his polemic. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineIt's provocative, involving and utterly gripping. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...there's a lot to like in directorPaul Greengrass' fast-break freneticism and in the evocatively fictionalized Iraq war story told here. It's nothing we haven't heard before, but - for Hollywood, at least - it's nuanced and exciting storytelling. |