May 27 2011 08:00 AM
I enjoyed this movie more than I would have guessed.
The movie opens with high ranking Ba'thist party members in hiding having a meeting on the morning of the invasion , among them is General Al-Rawi , he's key to the plot.....
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) is in Iraq at the outbreak of that war looking for WMD's , he believes the intel until the sites they are hitting continually turn up empty of WMD's.
Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) is part of the transition team and the one pushing the WMD agenda , Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson), a CIA officer based in the Middle East doesn't believe there are any WMD's and when Miller becomes disillusioned about his mission Brown pulls him in with a mission to find Al-Rawi to do a deal, Brown believes the General and the defeated Iraq army are needed to keep the country from disintegrating in to civil war.
No surprises that Poundstone and Brown have competing interests , Miller is naive in that though.I guess in that I can imagine that a lot of the troops on the ground back then believed the intel and the movie portrays their frustration building up, in typical Greengrass fashion danger lurks around every corner and the movie is at breakneck speed, it never lets up and even when it does you still I was still on edge.
I liked it ,plenty of action but also the fallacy that was WMD exposed with plenty of blame to go around .