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Cast and crew
Tonight, I’m off to the cast and crew screening of Paul Greengrass’s new Working Title Iraq WMD thriller ‘Green Zone’, starring Matt Damon it’s very loosely based on the the award-winning book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran ‘Imperial Life in the Emerald City‘. My Twitter buddy Screen Jabber liked the movie as did GQ. I hope it lives up the hype and I get the ‘Bourne’ in the desert adventure I’m hoping for. I will report back!
Update: I loved Green Zone but more importantly so did Roger Ebert.
Anything by Greengrass is usually more than worth watching. I’m Looking forward to the film
Paul- You’re going to love it!
So, Simon, what’s your verdict? Unbiased, non partisan – as if….
Shawn You should have come! I enjoyed it plenty of running about, big explosions and lots of quick cutting just what you’d expect from Greengrass.
Baghdad is done is very well, you get a real sense of the post war chaos and looting. The politics are a bit simplistic and the plot suffers from trying a bit too hard to combine lots of different Iraq war themes but doesn’t do too bad a job all the same.
Nice touch for the nerdy among us, the WSJ journalist character is obviously based on the NYT journalist Judith Miller (who went to jail for refusing to give up her conatct Scotter Libby) but they couldn’t use her so Greengrass calls the Matt Damon character Miller. Coincidence I think not!
7 out of 10 .. ‘The Hurt Locker’ it ain’t!
Let us into a secret – how much did it cost?
Financially or to reputations?
Ha ha, that’s an evasive answer if I ever heard one.
I’ll tell you next week over a coffee….But it’s a lot!