(“Hello, Zack Morris?  I thought I told you not to call me here.”)

Green Zone seems like an odd choice for Paul Greengrass, since it looks a lot like The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, in which he also directed Matt Damon.  This one’s based on Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone, an award-winning 2006 non-fiction book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, about the events between the end of the war and the surge and transfer of power to the Iraqis.  In the movie version:

Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is a rogue U.S. Army officer who must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil before war escalates in an unstable region.

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