Take the director and the star of the last two, excellent, Jason Bourne movies...and then reunite them for a Baghdad set, action thriller and you'll have a particular picture of the type of movie you're going to get. And with that collaboration, Green Zone, you'd be absolutely correct.
Like The Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum, Green Zone is a thriller that starts off in top gear and then never lets up. It's relentless. And when Damon isn't chasing round dusty street corners in pursuit of intelligence leads, he's locked in tense stand offs with local bureaucrats or engaged in taut unauthorised missions of subterfuge.
Thats a pretty successful base on which to build any movie, but build it does. The search for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's), the White House's reluctance to release it's Iraq intelligence sources and the disbandment of the Iraq military form the icing on the cake to an already riveting thriller. Damon is excellent , as always, building his character while on the move (just like the Bourne movies).
The production is impressive with the recreation of a recently occupied Iraq looking as realistic as the news reports. I found this more rewarding than The Hurt Locker, but I still find Blackhawk Down and The Kingdom to be superior. But not by a lot.
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