Green Zone

No, it isn’t another film in the Bourne series although Director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon would have wished the success to be the same. GREENZONE, written by Brian Helgeland (Man On Fire, The Taking of Pelham 123) and co-starring Greg Kinnear (The Matador, Little Miss Sunshine) and Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) involves a Chief Warrant Officer (Damon) who, after coming up empty handed on three sites said to contain WMD’s, begins to question the source of the information which leads down a nasty road of lies and deceit. Kinnear plays the villainous Clark Poundstone who attempts to convince the audience he stands for the well-being of the newly liberated Iraq but is not a very nice guy while actress Amy Ryan plays a journalist who finds herself in a sticky situation when she attempts to interview Kinnear’s source codenamed “Magellan”... [more]