Starring:
Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear
Review:
How do you make an Iraq War movie that audiences will actually
pay to see? (Don't holler The Hurt Locker, since all its
Oscar medals never melted into box-office gold.) Matt Damon and
director Paul Greengrass deliver their answer in Green
Zone, taking a nonfiction book, Imperial Life in the
Emerald City, by former Washington Post Baghdad
bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran, and turning it into a
Bourne movie. Who better? Damon starred as the amnesiac
CIA operative in all three Bourne films, and Greengrass
directed the last two. Expect hand-held cameras tracking Damon as
he runs, fights and chases Bush-era bad guys.
Peter Travers reviews Green Zone in his weekly video
podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers."
Nothing wrong with an ace action thriller. But the book,...
Rating: 2 Stars
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