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Green Zone

Rating 3

Starring: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Khalid Abdalla

Playing at: Banque Scotia, Brossard, Cavendish, Colossus, Côte des Neiges, Kirkland, Lacordaire, LaSalle, Marché Central, Sources, Sphèretech, and Taschereau cinemas.

Parents' guide: violence, language.

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Important people are going to hell for the Iraq War, but Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass are not among them.

The kinetic Bourne duo reunite for Green Zone, a single-minded action thriller about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as a ruse to start the ill-fated Middle East conflict.

Steady Damon is Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, a U.S. soldier in Baghdad during the chaotic opening weeks of the conflict. His job is to find WMD, thus justify the war. His problem is he can't find any. After three highly touted sites turn up empty and his men turn up dead, this determined, even dogged, individual goes looking for answers.

He won't get them from the weasel U.S. government mouthpiece played by Greg Kinnear, or his allies in Green Zone HQ. But he will be pointed in the right direction by an old CIA hand (Brendan Gleeson), whose clear-eyed view of the ugly affair has banished him to the fringes of power.

With translator Franky (excellent Khalid Abdalla) onside in the search for Bathist lynchpin Al Rawi (Yigal Naor), Miller is locked and loaded for combat.

At this point, Green Zone relinquishes any claim to documentary vérité credentials and charges off into rogue warrior territory, with Damon as the white knight committed to the truth, even if he has to do it all by himself.

What follows is a tremendous volume of sound and fury, shot at full shaky-cam velocity by The Hurt Locker's Barry Akroyd, and cut with a laser beam by the always-busy Greengrass.

There's a lot of sweaty-palms action, with furious firefights, door-to-door combat and men on the same team getting up into each other's faces. There's also a real, teeming sense of biblical confusion on the ground, and duplicity in the corridors of power.

Poor Amy Ryan gets to play the Wall Street Journal reporter so seduced by Kinnear's White House insider she promulgates the WMD boondoggle in articles that justify an unjustifiable invasion. All Damon's one-dimensional character can do is throw her a withering glance.

Green Zone's appearance so soon after the Oscar triumph of the infinitely more nuanced The Hurt Locker is unfortunate.

Working from a fictional script by Brian Helgeland wrung from the factual story by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Greengrass hits one long, loud note about American military-industrial greed, arrogance and ignorance abroad. It's not subtle, but he has chosen a genre where enough people might actually show up to hear him out.