UNITED 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in GREEN ZONE, which sees Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller desperately searching the country for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Eric Fellner, Paul Greengrass, Lloyd Levin, Tim Bevan
EAN
5030697043894
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7048560372
Product Key Features
Film/TV Title
Green Zone
Actor
Brendan Gleeson, Said Faraj, Greg Kinnear, Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Khalid Abdalla, Amy Ryan
Director
Paul Greengrass
Format
Blu-ray
Language
English
Release Year
2020
Genre
Thriller, General
Run Time
115 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate
15
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Reviews
Village Voice - A master of smash-mash montage and choreographed chaos, Greengrass is the best action director working today, adroit at producing the sense of everyone converging and everything happening simultaneously., Rolling Stone - Damon and Greengrass haven't shirked their duty to enlighten and entertain., The Hollywood Reporter - Christopher Rouse's rapid-fire editing nervously stitches the stunts, chases, fights and confrontations together. It's a remarkable film., Independent - Greengrass, with his superkinetic camerawork and visceral sense of you-are-there immediacy, pieces together a compelling picture of a ground force trying (and failing) to order a city on the slide towards anarchy, Times (UK) - GREEN ZONE is probably the nearest the Americans will get to the public floggings of the Chilcot Inquiry except there will be popcorn on hand and a far larger audience, Empire - Bourne goes epic. A wham-bam actioner, but its pointed political subtext ensures Damon and Greengrass deliver their most provocative mission yet.
Author
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Additional Information
UNITED 93 director Paul Greengrass explores the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in this feature adaptation of author Rajiv Chandrasekaran's literary expose of the same name. A one-time Baghdad bureau chief of the Washington Post, Chandrasekaran was present as American forces attempted to set up a provisional government on the grounds surrounding former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's opulent palace. The resulting governing body, according to critics, existed in a bubble so far removed from the grim realities of the Iraq War that it failed to properly assess the needs of the people. In this fictional thriller set during the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad, director Greengrass and screenwriter Brian Helgeland use Chandrasekaran's novel as the foundation for the story of an officer who joins forces with a senior CIA officer to unearth evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) is certain that Hussein has been stockpiling WMDs in the Iraqi desert, but in their race from one booby-trapped site to the next, they soon stumble across evidence of an elaborate cover up. As a result, the objective of their mission is inverted, and Miller realizes that operatives on both sides of the conflict are attempting to spin the story in their favor. Now, as Miller searches for answers made ever more elusive by covert and faulty intelligence, the truth becomes the most valuable weapon of all. Will those answers prove pivotal in clearing a rogue regime, or escalate the war in a region that grows increasingly unstable with each passing day? Amy Ryan co-stars as the New York Times foreign correspondent who travels to Iraq investigating the U.S. government's allegations about weapons of mass destruction, with Greg Kinnear appearing in the role of an additional CIA officer, and Antoni Corone essaying the role of a colonel. Brendan Gleeson rounds out the main cast for this Universal Pictures production.
Movie/TV Title
Green Zone
Sound source
Dolby Digital
Screenwriter
Brian Helgeland
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