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 Critics have had mixed feelings about Paul Greengrass' (Bourne Supremacy, United 93) latest film Green Zone starring Matt Damon. Inspired by Rajiv Chandrasekaran's nonfiction account Imperial Life in the Emerald City, the fictionalized movie depicts Army chief warrant officer Roy Miller (Damon) who is given the task to find the infamous weapons of mass destruction during the Iraq war. Most of the positive assessments of this film rest on Damon's acting, with J. Hoberman of Village Voice stating, "Greengrass's pyrotechnics aside, Green Zone works mainly because of the hardworking, always-believable Damon." However, a great deal of criticism has centered on the film's script which The New York Observer's Rex Reed calls a "follow-the-dots screenplay [which] turns everyone into such war-scarred clichés." To Anthony Lane of New Yorker magazine, it is Greengrass' characteristic thriller tone that is part of the problem as it "gave better value in the Bourne films, which, for all their low moods, were fired by basic fantasy, whereas the excitements of Green Zone sit uneasily with its examination of the real and recent past." |
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