{"id":8763,"date":"2010-03-14T19:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2010-03-14T21:26:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T05:26:30","slug":"green-zone-paul-greengrass-2010-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/?p=8763","title":{"rendered":"Green Zone (Paul Greengrass, 2010): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/?author=49\">Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at the Riviera.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KsQDB-gs2UY\/SwCxHMrBh7I\/AAAAAAAAAFw\/UkTcr_b4oNw\/s320\/green+zone.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"320\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/>\u00a0 There is an area\u00a0in central Baghdad that represents the international presence within the city, known as the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0947810\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Zone<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This war-thriller collaboration between star Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass, who also helmed The Bourne Supremacy (2004)\u00a0and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007),\u00a0made sitting through\u00a0this film a bit reminiscent of Jason Bourne meets The Hurt Locker.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Warrant Officer Miller\u00a0(Matt Damon) and his squad are responsible for using intel to search out WMDs, but\u00a0continually come up empty.\u00a0 After several instances of this, Miller complains about the inaccurate data\u00a0to his superiors at a debriefing and is rebuffed.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0top White House official Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) is welcoming back an exiled Iraqi politician, Chief Miller is approached by the CIA and informed that the bad intel is all a part of\u00a0the big cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the chase is on for Saddam&#8217;s top advisor Al-Rawi by Chief Miller who wants to get to the bottom of everything, and by\u00a0a rogue squad sent to put Al-Rawi&#8217;s lights out and commissioned\u00a0by a top White House official.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of action with\u00a0loud explosions and heavy artillery, but little in the way of a solid plot and intelligent dialogue.\u00a0 Little more than an action piece for talented Matt\u00a0Damon who starred in last year&#8217;s The Informant!, it&#8217;s\u00a0downright disappointing.\u00a0 Overuse of the shaky-cam treatment is ridiculous, unnecessary and exploited in this film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at the Riviera. \u00a0 There is an area\u00a0in central Baghdad that represents the international presence within the city, known as the Green Zone.\u00a0 This war-thriller collaboration between star Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass, who also helmed The Bourne Supremacy (2004)\u00a0and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007),\u00a0made sitting through\u00a0this film a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema-society","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}