Green Zone

Green Zone is a terrific film, with a big problem in its centre - it is based on Rajiv Chandrasekaran's non-fiction book. The book is an enthralling read by itself, but by weaving a threadbare story around the realistic study of the search for WMDs in Iraq and the politics of the land it takes place in, Greengrass and his writer Brian Helgeland ladle on a lot of broad political statement without contextualizing it in the tale.

The best thing about taking it a few notches up the realism scale is that it gives the action that much more gravitas. While the Bourne films skirted w....