Green Zone (2009) starring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Khalid Abdalla, Amy Ryan, Igal Naor, Jason Isaacs. Early in the Iraq War, Army Chief Roy Miller (Damon) questions why the intel is bad on the location of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Kinnear plays a government weasel who won't listen to the soldiers on the ground. Gleeson is a CIA agent who encourages Miller but won't tell all he knows. Ryan plays a journalist who wrote articles on WMD based on faulty sources. The movie shows Iraq after the invasion as a chaotic place, with various U.S. factions playing off against each other in a giant clusterfuck, which it undoubtedly was. Dear old George W. Bush even makes an appearance. The subtitles are pretty good, but the film's kinetic action is hard to follow even with captions. Grade: B+
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