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Green Zone
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2019
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Positive Reviews
70
Negative reviews
12
Average Rating
3.4
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3.2
As expected, Greengrass smoothly integrates the suspense and tension of a Hollywood thriller with a ground level depiction of American chicanery in th ..
Av Club
1.5
Her character doesnt do much other than showcase war reporters as fools for not realising there were no WMD not an unfair point, but shes more of an a ..
Den Of Geek
4.5
Greengrass is by now the undisputed master of action suspense films, and his director of photography Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker) hits the ground r ..
Austin Chronicle
4.5
Instead they will get a well researched and impressively shot conspiracy thriller that works extremely well as an action drama.
Screen Daily
4.5
But Green Zone isnt an absurdist dark comedy or an exploration of the moral complexities caused by a war thats based on a lie.
Collider
4.5
We know immediately that Miller is the good guy, but that doesnt mean we care about him.
Collider
5.0
Yes, the film is fiction, employs farfetched coincidences and improbably places one man at the center of all the action.It is a thriller, not a docume ..
Rogerebert
4.0
Green Zone Buy posters from this movie by Rob Gonsalves Bourne goes to Iraq..One productive way to approach Green Zone might be as a dark comedy of fr ..
E Film Critic
3.0
The plotting just about works, but it works at a cost: something close to credibility is sacrificed.
Telegraph
4.0
The good news is, much like the Bourne films, by the time the third act rolls around you are so immersed in the story that you almost entirely forget ..
Cinema Blend
4.0
The cast is strong, and Damon is a dependable center for all this, a classic American good guy wanting to know whats rotten and why.
Ny Daily News
2.3
This may not be the worst war movie Ive seen, but it sure doesnt rank up there with the best of them.
JoBlo
2.5
Occasionally, Greengrasss skills as an action director, the handheld camera and frenetic editing, make the unpalatable at least absorbing, occasionall ..
The Globe And Mail
3.1
Matt Damon is Roy Miller, a U.S. soldier in Iraq who comes to realize that he, his men, and his country are being played for fools.Matt Damon is Roy M ..
Philly
2.8
Greengrass is in a kind of suspended artistic animation, and the movie itself has the feel of something backed into a corner a thriller that wants to ..
Philly
3.0
Hiram W. Johnson once said: The first casualty of war is truth..And so it has been for a long, long time.
Spirituality And Practice
3.1
But I have to admit that, for about an hour, the movie had me in its clutches, and it may be the first Iraq War movie to entice large numbers of viewe ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.0
This Iraq war drama makes a game attempt to meld the two, though manufacturing thrills takes precedence over any kind of journalistic insight.
Chicago Reader
3.1
Someone is to blame.Can we have a hero stand up and say as much and find the culprit
Mark Reviews Movies
3.1
As a war thriller, Zone works on a visceral level, though Greengrass trademark jittery camera work hits new dizzying and occasionally off putting note ..
Usa Today
2.5
Unfortunately, this too, is tied to the same dumb conspiracy theory.This is basically an action film.
Lariat
2.8
The weasels and turncoats involved could just as well have come from any other spy thriller.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
Compounding the issue is that few of his superiors want to hear about any of that, especially Pentagon official Clark Poundstone (GREG KINNEAR) whos i ..
Screen It
3.0
The style has its drawbacks.In delivering whats essentially an action movie, the films interest in nuance and ambiguity gets squashed underfoot by all ..
Independent
3.1
Maybe.But even in this Bourne Zone, Damon and Greengrass havent shirked their duty to enlighten and entertain.
Rolling Stone
2.5
The concept album that is Arethas Gold follows the chronology of Aretha Franklins hits, all released in 1967 and 1968, apex years of the decade not ju ..
Pop Matters
2.8
Action packed to a fault, its clearly intended to break the genres cycle of uncommerciality.
Cs Monitor
3.5
...a stiff, uneven Iraq War actioner thats more anti invasion wish fulfillment than ideas driven drama.
Film Journal
3.1
But a restlessness keeps the movie both unsettled and uninteresting.
Boston
3.5
Its a good movie, but definitely a few notches away from a great one.
Mountain X
3.1
Frenetic in execution and formulaic in substance, the film leaves one lathered into a frenzy but not moved, at once overwhelmed and undernourished.
Star Tribune
2.0
We all know about the WMD scandal, so the ending is basically predictable in broad outline and the twist put on it is contrived, anti climactic and un ..
Guardian
3.5
The film is as incandescent as Chandrasekarans book is cool, and it moves like a bullet on which the viewer precariously sits like Slim Pickens riding ..
Guardian
2.5
While Matt Damons performance as a hero on an important mission evokes suspense and empathy, Green Zone suffers from the chaotic way its filmed.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.0
And instead of thrilling us, it just seems annoyingly hyperactive.
Daily Mail
2.8
The more sober 2007 documentary No End in Sight produced powerful evidence of fatally poor decision making in Iraq.
Ew
2.5
But the movie (which was shot two years ago and has been sitting on Universals shelf ever since) feels stale, its anti war message stuck in the mid 20 ..
Slate
4.0
Instead, Greengrass has married politics with popcorn.Yes, Green Zone has substance, but it is, first and foremost, a breakneck action film tense, fre ..
Empire
2.5
Susan Grangers review of Green Zone (Universal Pictures) If you havent had enough of the Iraqi War with the Oscar winning The Hurt Zone and are intrig ..
Susang Ranger
3.0
GREEN ZONE is terrifically entertaining, a tension filled ride that brings viewers right to the heart of the action.
Common Sense Media
2.5
Sure it does all that swooping and jittering and blurro vision and keeps the action coherent.
Movies
3.8
The story is good enough to make viewers want to ignore the photography.
Sf Gate
3.5
Green Zone approaches every human activity as if preparing to defibrillate.
New Yorker
0.6
Nonetheless, the films crude regurgitation of common truths and opinions is ultimately less grating than its spurious attempt to legitimize itself via ..
Slant Magazine
3.1
Instead we have Greengrass, who with his Bourne movie star Matt Damon has crafted a jangly, noisy, compulsively restless thriller on a par with the Bo ..
Washington Post
4.0
However, if any film can break that prejudice it is Green Zone, an edge of theseat thriller in which the exhilarating immediacy of the action sequence ..
Express
3.8
Theres a moment or, more specifically, image in The Last Song that pretty much sums up its grand ambitions and how it ends up falling short.
Mr Brown Movies
3.1
Green Zone is partly real and partly, increasingly, fantastic and outlandish in its wishful thinking.
Chicago Tribune
2.5
Unfortunately, that seems to be the condition Greengrass and Helgeland hope to find their audience in in order to sell this as a revelatory political ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
No amount of beautifully gritty urban military action excitement can quite overcome the sense that the real story is almost entirely missing here.
Flickfilosopher
4.0
Breathless action and complex intrigue ensure we are hooked throughout an expertly orchestrated war zone thriller
Total Film
4.4
Brendan Gleeson provides that rarest of rare cinematic creatures: a trustworthy and honest CIA operative.
ReelViews
2.5
At the beginning of the film, an Iraqi civilian, Freddy (Khalid Abdalla), approaches Miller and tells him where the highest ranking Iraqi military per ..
The Atlantic
1.0
This punishingly chaotic often incoherent and ultimately exhausting approach to storytelling isnt cinema verite; its dementia pugilistica.
Hollywood
2.5
Compiled with more than 40 hours of interviews with Coach Wooden, learn about the man behind the coach.
Tony Medley
2.2
So unrelentingly spastic are the non stop camera movements that you feel shaken not stirred when the closing credits finally roll.
Coles Mithey
2.5
Worse yet, the lengthy chase that closes the film is a dark, grainy mess, a regression of Greengrass seemingly honed talent for making shaky cams and ..
Pajiba
3.5
Made with daring and passion, it attempts the impossible and comes remarkably close to pulling it off.
Los Angeles Times
2.5
But Green Zone is tired and cornynot meaningfuland frantic in its action rather than genuinely exciting.
Groucho Reviews
3.5
If you cant get over the idea Greengrass is more interested in the emotional experience than any factual name calling, Green Zone may be a film that d ..
Hit Fix
4.4
Even amid the politics and the action, the performances never get lost.
Aisle Seat
2.5
And although the movie admittedly begins to run out of steam as it passes the one hour mark, something thats especially true of a prolonged stretch se ..
Reel Film
3.0
If you can swallow the political pill with this movie and take it as an action flick, youll like it.
7M Pictures
3.8
Green Zone has an attitude it persuades in almost documentary style that the war was sold on false pretences but no ones motives in this tangled affai ..
The Star
2.5
Unfortunately, that makes it even more of a shame that the plot itself is riddled with so many holes.
Deseret News
4.0
If they succeed and the West invades Iraq only to find no WMDs, there is going to be much egg on many faces and heaps of shit hitting many fans.As hap ..
Urban Cine File
3.5
This is a movie that offers an important look back at the wars start.
Maki At The Movies
4.0
That the basis of the narrative cant be called provable reality isnt for lack of echoes of the political cynicism that prevailed in real and recent hi ..
Varia Gate
4.0
If theres a chink in the movies armour, its that it loses its ways somewhat when it gets into politics.
Digital Spy
3.8
Politics aside and purely as a piece of genre moviemaking, Green Zone is a solid example of a political paranoia thriller.
New York Post
1.9
Green Zone dresses the part of a mature minded war drama for adult audiences, but it is every bit as by the numbers as that particular genre will allo ..
Dustin Put Man
2.5
Director Paul Greengrasss biggest credits include the slick, well made escapist thrills of two Bourne sequels and the restrained docudrama realism of ..
Christianity Today
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
2.5
You get the feeling that director Paul Greengrass wouldnt know what to do with a camera that was locked into position on a tripod, for example, or a d ..
Hollywood And Fine
3.0
This pair delivering even half a good movie is still better than many manage.
The Sun
2.5
Its entertainment first and foremost, with ham fisted politics popping the mood far too often, sucking away a desired tempo of defiance to play a crud ..
Brian Or Ndorf
2.4
Have you ever wondered why a Hollywood films screenplay might seem like such a mess and so dumbed down
Nyc Movie Guru
3.0
When the film does buckle down to act like a real thriller it does quite a good job of it, but youre more than likely to have lost patience with it by ..
ComingSoon
3.3
Why I Should See It: The combination of raunchy humor and sweet romance might make this a movie young men and women can enjoy together, making it a gr ..
ComingSoon
4.0
The movies shaky camera style creates a gonzo documentary effect that seems to be there to convey authenticity.
News Week
4.0
With Bloody Sunday and United 93, director Paul Greengrass has a solid track record with visceral thrillers that have a focussed, thoroughly researche ..
Sky
4.0
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Entertainment Times Online ..
2.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
3.5
But man, oh, man, as a pulse pounding thriller, it is a knockout.
Mercury News
2.5
During the exciting, turbulent and eventually wayward course of Green Zone, Jason Bourne discovers the truth about weapons of mass destruction, then t ..
Wsj
2.5
The ending of Green Zone is very conventional; its been done many times.Amy Ryans smile is phony.
Tony Mack
2.2
I suspect that may be because its raw, unadorned depiction of a tragedy still fresh in peoples minds may have been too much even for the most battle h ..
Film Blather
3.0
It feels a little too easy for Greengrass, a little too by the numbers.
Fan The Fire Magazine
2.5
He displays the most honest emotions about the future direction of his country and the intrusive American invasion.
Entertainment Spectrum
3.8
You may remember a few weeks ago I was not as enthusiastic about The Hurt Locker as many other folks were, though it was a magnificent directorial eff ..
Reel Talk Online
3.1
Paul Greengrasss loud, Damon driven documentary style thriller confusingly weaves fact and fiction and whipsaws between various conspiracy theories, w ..
Us Magazine
3.5
This is not the literate thriller like Body of Lies either.Its pretty humorless too.
Can Mag
5.0
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Ny Press
2.5
Its the Green Zone, the home of the Coalition Provisional Authority which oversaw the country in the heady early days of the occupation.Minutes after ..
Critics Notebook
5.0
The action and suspense portrayed on screen hold your attention much more, in my opinion, then the most recent Oscar winner, The Hurt Locker, ever did ..
Crazed Fan Boy
2.5
There arent even enough stunning moments for me to recommend this as a mindless popcorn actioner and its ham fisted politics are indeed mindless.
The Diva Review
4.0
Instead of blocking the action for the camera frame, Greengrass allows the action to unfold while the camera must simply keep up.
Cinema Autopsy
5.0
There is no better director of action sequences and we really feel like were ducking for cover from enemy fire as mayhem erupts.Damon delivers a passi ..
Liver Pool Echo
4.0
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Cine Rina
4.0
Greengrasss shaky cam technique certainly places us right in the middle of the blistering action making it all the more real and visceral despite the ..
Daily Record
3.8
This may simply be a sign of how toothless most Hollywood movies are these days, but I cant help but admire Greengrass for making a war movie that sys ..
Nyc Film Critic
2.0
Its refreshing to see an Army soldier treated with deserved dignity in regard to modern war.
Tucson Weekly
1.3
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Kam Williams
1.5
Country: United States Afghanistan Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Ban ..
Miss Flick Chick
3.5
Distills not simplifies the clashing forces that dashed our chance of peace. Greengrass is economical in his scenes; the film bolts forward like a gre ..
Amy Weekly
3.5
Green Zone is far from perfect. But man oh man, as a pulse pounding thriller, it is a knockout.
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