Who would have thought, amid recent Oscar winner The Hurt Locker and films by such influential directors such as Brian De Palma and Paul Haggis, that one of the best films on the Iraq War would come from the director-actor duo who brought us two of the Bourne thrillers? Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have united once again with the recent Green Zone, a thriller set in the international zone of Iraq in 2003. Matt Damon plays Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, not an amnesiac like his hero in the Bourne movies, but a soldier kept out of the loop in deep state conspiracies that turned the Iraq War into a fiasco. The film begins with Miller and his men raiding locations to find weapons of mass destruction. Instead, they find bird droppings.
