March 13, 2010
Family-Faith Film Review: Green Zone
Family-Faith Film Review: Green Zone
By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting
Green Zone—Idealistic but raw combat drama, set in the early days of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as a dedicated Army officer (Matt Damon) tries to discover why his unit’s search for the Saddam regime’s weapons of mass destruction continually comes up empty, and finds himself caught in a power struggle between a Defense Department intelligence agent (Greg Kinnear) who’s indifferent to the justification for American intervention and a rogue CIA station chief (Brendan Gleeson) who believes the whole operation rests on a foundation of lies and fabrications. Director Paul Greengrass’ uneasy mix of political conspiracy yarn and action adventure, loosely inspired by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s 2007 bestseller “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” increasingly takes on the qualities of a personal crusade by its hero, thus blunting its ability to dissect larger questions of real-life morality. Considerable action violence, some of it bloody, torture, several uses of profanity, frequent rough and crude language. L — limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (R) 2010
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March 13, 2010
Hollywood is good at conspiracies, does any oen expect Green Zone to be honest?
March 14, 2010
I can appreciate Mr Damon’s politics. What I don’t appreciate is paying $10.50 to listen to his politics. I go to the movies to be entertained and this film left me frustrated and feeling ripped off.
Yes, we should all blunt our ability to dissect larger questions of real-life morality, like, say, a Pope who knowingly sanctions child abuse? How about a Christianist POTUS who used manufactured intelligence as sole justification for a war which ended up killing hundred of thousands of innocent muslims?
I find these things troubling. And perhaps the Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting is trying to limit audience viewership of this movie because it finds the subject a little too close to the truth, which, in the Christian world, could be very bad for business.