From the director of the last 2 Bourns (Supremacy & Ultimatum)comes this "utterly unmissable" (Mirror)war based film.
The time is 2003 and the location is Baghdad. The mission is to find weapons of mass destruction hidden by Saddam's regime. Chief Miller leads the elite US Army team in search of these WMD and instead uncover a deadly conspiracy of murder and deception reaching all the way to the top. Miller finds that no one can be trustedand that the people who seemed to be his enemy, claim to beon his side.
Reading what Green Zone offers really sets the film up to be an epic war film filled with guns, mystery and a shit loada' bad language. But, it just doesn't deliver. Granted the action is pretty good and the storyline is riddled with intelectually factual accuracy about Baghdad back then but it is not backed up by likable characters or believable circumstances e.g. Throughout the whole film almost 3 US soldiers are killed whilst the whole fleet of enemies are wiped out.
Sitting though till the end feels more like a chore, it becomes boring halfway through and so the feeling of unfulfilemt sweeps over when the credits finally role up.
Maybe it has something to do with it's 15 age rating or that maybe it is trying to hard to be 'Bourne In A War Zone' but this film cries out for attention off the viewer and only gets in return a sigh of unsatisfaction and a un-holy hand gesture to move on and be gone.
2 Stars
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