Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Green Zone

Green Zone (2010) is a nice Matt Damon thriller. Damon plays an Army NCO whose team is searching for weapons of mass destruction after 2003 invasion of Iraq. He discovers that the intelligence reports are completely made up by a Bush administration synchophant. It's an adrenaline fest. Stunningly good performance by Khalid Abdalla as the Iraqi civilian who brings the McGuffin to Damon's attention and comes along for the action as the not-completely-willing translator. Partially based on Rajiv Chandrasekaran's excellent non-fiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Life Inside Iraq's Green Zone.

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