Heading to the theatre, I felt I needed a Jason Bourne fix, the dude is simply a bad ass and after viewing the trailer for Green Zone, I had thought I finally found something to hold me over, but did I really see a military version of the Bourne films?

Not even remotely. Now if you mean did the action scenes have the wobbly, "I'm running right behind you" cinematography, then yes in every way it's a Bourne like action film. Even though the Main lead is played by Matt Damon (Bourne Films) as Chief Warrant Officer Rob Miller, Directed by Paul Greengrass (Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum), short of that there isn't anything to resemble a Bourne like film.

Don't discredit that even though the film does not resemble a Bourne like type of film, necessarily made the film bad. The screenplay was written by Brian Helgeland who has written and screenplay films as popular as Mystic River and films that are questionably bad as The Postman. The writer is adapting the Green Zone from Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book The Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, which discusses the USA infiltration into Iraq of 2003, and the validity of military armed forces searching for WMDs.

What you can expect in this film is the debatable question Where were the WMD or weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? The question is the basis of the film, and Matt Damon's character is in charge of an Army Weapon Retrieval Unit to find out the answer, and of course as he searches for the answer he finds out it's more complicated then he could ever imagine.

If you liked military films similar to Blackhawk Down, or even espionage films like Body of Lies, then this film will peak your interest. The film also feels a lot like the film, United 93 which was also directed by Paul Greengrass. The similarities is that both films take a topic of real world conflict and fill in the blanks with a point view of what did happen. For example the director has a point of view of what did really happen aboard United Flight 93, as well as what really happen to the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.

The acting was just, where as there was no real outstanding performance, but none to criticize that their performance was less than apt. The action was good and the story kept a even rhythm to engage the viewer through the entire film, but the camera editing was never my favorite in any of Greengrass's films.

In the DA review I give the Green Zone, 2 out of 5 pitchforks.

In reality, I will however give credit that this film is probably a more "proper" military film as compare to The Hurt Locker which is relatively a good movie, but caught flack for not being a properly military portrayed film. I feel the critics won't judge the Green Zone in the same light.

Really the Green Zone Deserves 3 out of 5 pitchforks.