The Green Zone

[spherojon]

It was a ok MOVIE, but I had to laugh how the sf was cast. Good action sceens.

[orion5]

spherojon,

I was going to see it tonight, but held off to see how others on here reviewed it, especially after I read this today: http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/artic...12/story.jhtml

Kurt Loder of MTV is usually a relatively liberal reviewer, so when he said this I had to wonder:

"It's also a little odd that the most vicious character in the movie is a U.S. Special Forces officer named Briggs...while the fugitive Al Rawi (Igal Naor), the man who holds the key to the WMD puzzle, is considerably more sympathetic..."

Kurt also talks about the shaky cam thing:

"And Greengrass [the director], who forged a powerful action style out of hand-held camera work in the second and third "Bourne" movies, here goes totally over to the shaky-cam side. There's not one stable shot in the whole movie — even a scene with two guys talking at a table is filmed as if there were a riot going on."

Did that shaky-cam thing bother you??

o5

[fng13]

I thought it was good. Good as far as an action movie with an ok story. As far as the military being portrayed in a completely accurate way I dont think so, but I don't have first hand knowledge so ymmv. The shaky cam didn't bother me.

I think it beat the Borne Sequals but not the original.

There were some expected movie flaws that I caught, such as optics being on guns that I wouldn't expect them to be on. ACOG on an MP5.(Perhaps some people would use that I just don't know what the advantage would be). That same optic is portrayed to be nightvision and have a red dot rather than the chevron or crosshair. Helicopter surveillance that can identify a friendly from a target without any type of indicator. (that may very well be real correct me if incorrect).

Overall though I didn't feel ripped off for my $6.50 and it was an enjoyable way to spend two hours with the girl.

After some others see it, I am curious to see how they thought of the way SF was portrayed. They seemed to fit the mold that hollywood usually reserves for SEALs.

[Dozer523]

Those damn Warrant Officers get to do EVERYTHING they want!
No one plays dedicated and devoted (and surprised at his own abilities) as well as Matt Damon.

[dr. mabuse]

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[Richard]

It's a movie - it's fiction - it's...yawn.

Richard's $.02