Green Zone
Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 12, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
25
Mixed:
13
Negative:
0
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58
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Green Zone wraps up with a wish-fulfillment fantasy that is about as believable as watching reinforcements riding in to save Custer. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
With Green Zone, though, the malaise has finally hit me. So while Damon's Miller uncovers the (inconvenient) truth of why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, all I want to know is: How does he suggest we get out? Read full review
50
SlateDana Stevens
To suggest that a lone, brave soldier could have set things right with a little amateur sleuthing seems like cinematic wish-fulfillment, an insult both to the intelligence of viewers and to the troops. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Screenwriter Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) is the real culprit here, creating a crude paint-by-numbers fiction that keeps yelling about the importance of the truth while hurtling in the opposite direction. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Director Paul Greengrass has applied his jumpy, tumbling visual style to action blockbusters with Matt Damon and serious dramatizations of political events. This Iraq war drama makes a game attempt to meld the two, though manufacturing thrills takes precedence over any kind of journalistic insight. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Once Damon's one-man truth squad goes off the reservation and starts behaving too much like Jason Bourne for comfort, the film begins not only spilling more blood but also leaking crucial credibility. Read full review
50
ObserverRex Reed
Shot by Barry Ackroyd, the same cinematographer who filmed "The Hurt Locker," and using the same camera techniques, this movie looks like outtakes from a much better film. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
Green Zone isn't so much a bad movie as a misguided one. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
For a while Green Zone generates genuine excitement, as well as plenty of provocation--a fatuous surrogate for Ahmed Chalabi, a pervasive scorn for American planning--but then goes off its own reservation into a won't-fly zone of awkward preachments and hapless absurdities. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazineRay Greene
Green Zone is an exercise in commercial cowardice masquerading as a thriller about political bravery. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
It's also rather tawdry. The climax is as ludicrous as any Jack Bauer adventure, and Greengrass is always on shaky ground. Literally. Read full review
40
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
What lends the film its grip and its haste is also what makes it unsatisfactory. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
Not since a Nam-scarred Sly Stallone asked, "Do we get to win this time?" in "Rambo: First Blood Part II" has an American action star been deployed to rewrite history so thoroughly. Read full review
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