Talkie Zoo: GREEN ZONE

I really like political movies, and Green Zone (2010; R) fits the bill perfectly. The story is that of an Army Warrant Officer Miller (Matt Damon) who finds himself caught up in faulty intel in the Middle East war. Set in Baghdad, Miller and his group are on a mission to find WMDs, but come up empty handed after every try. They are given supposedly good information about the location of weapons of mass destruction, but warehouses and other places they storm into are not only empty, but have been empty for a very long time.

The Green Zone is the area where US officials, the CIA, and other people of importance are staying. It's the "communications central" for everything going on, so it's where Miller goes to try to find the truth. He doesn't want football gifts - he wants to know the source of the intelligence that has been sending him on so many wild goose chases. He's an honest soldier and only needs to know why he's there and what that war is all about.

I found it interesting that some of his "men" were actually soldiers who'd been to Iraq. They did a great job in the film, and helped it become real to the audience.