Green Zone - Review

Matt Damon + Paul Greengrass + Action = Great films + Box office gold. Matt Damon + Paul Greengrass + Action + Iraq? Well that could be a little more tricky. By and large Iraq war movies have failed miserably at the box office, this despite the fact that most have been really rather good. Take The Hurt Locker for example, it won 6 Oscars, including Best Picture, yet barely recouped its $11 million budget in the States. With Green Zone Universal is banking on the Damon/Greengrass connection pulling in the punters and has deliberately toned down the Iraq references in it’s advertising campaign. So it’ll be interesting to see how it fares. So what’s it like when Bourne goes to Baghdad?