I hadn't heard a lot about Green Zone, I knew that it was packaged as the war version of Bourne due to star Damon and director Greengrass teaming up again and that nobody saw it, it didn't make a lot of money and it's reviews wern't great either. So it kind of vanished without a trace really, which is a good thing really.
First lets comment on Damon in the film. If I'm honest there isn't an awful lot to say about his performance as there isn't really one, it is pretty much just Damon shouting about WMD's for a couple of hours.
So second, lets move onto Greengrass' direction, there is an intense enjoyable opening scene but after that the camera is too frantic and shakey you cant even tell what the events on screen are and when it's just dialogue between two characters the wobbliness of the camera is just off putting.
Green Zone also marks the re-team-up of Damon and "Stuck on you" co-star Greg Kinnear. So this is where I'll take the time to give Kinnear a bit of spotlight, who is spot on playing a bureacratic villain - albiet he doesnt seem to be stretching himself for the role he inihibits Clark Poundstone perfectly.
Brendan Gleeson is also enjoyable as Martin Brown, a CIA rival to Kinnears Poundstone, his growling, gravely voice and hunched persona is suited to the thriller environment but what he attempts to do with his Irish accent is just daft, it doesnt sound slightly American - it almost appears that he starts off trying to blend his voice and by the end of filming had just given up.
I think the major problem I had with this film is that it's not a blockbuster, its not great action and its not great drama either - which we know the war genre can provide us with, which it recently had with The Hurt Locker so all in all:
3
First lets comment on Damon in the film. If I'm honest there isn't an awful lot to say about his performance as there isn't really one, it is pretty much just Damon shouting about WMD's for a couple of hours.
So second, lets move onto Greengrass' direction, there is an intense enjoyable opening scene but after that the camera is too frantic and shakey you cant even tell what the events on screen are and when it's just dialogue between two characters the wobbliness of the camera is just off putting.
Green Zone also marks the re-team-up of Damon and "Stuck on you" co-star Greg Kinnear. So this is where I'll take the time to give Kinnear a bit of spotlight, who is spot on playing a bureacratic villain - albiet he doesnt seem to be stretching himself for the role he inihibits Clark Poundstone perfectly.
Brendan Gleeson is also enjoyable as Martin Brown, a CIA rival to Kinnears Poundstone, his growling, gravely voice and hunched persona is suited to the thriller environment but what he attempts to do with his Irish accent is just daft, it doesnt sound slightly American - it almost appears that he starts off trying to blend his voice and by the end of filming had just given up.
I think the major problem I had with this film is that it's not a blockbuster, its not great action and its not great drama either - which we know the war genre can provide us with, which it recently had with The Hurt Locker so all in all:
3
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