I think this movie gets it right in the Big Picture(TM)--Bush was wrong about WMDs and his cronies slanted the evidence to justify taking out Saddam. That's it, pure and simple. And the other points made-about the idiotic disbanding of the Iraqi army and the Baath party thereby ruining what little chance we had of making their broken but semi-useable infrastructure work for us--that's well portrayed too.
I liked Damon as Miller but thought it strayed somewhat when he stopped riding in the Humvees and ran around w/ a million bucks in tow and w/ Hopalong Freddie there. That didn't work so well. Brendan Gleeson is fine as always-and oddly sympathetic here-but they didn't give him enough to do.
Paul Kinnear as a Paul Bremer/Snidely Whiplash type here is hate-able and you hope he rides over an IED later after the credits role. I liked some of this movie, as I said, but there seems to be a problem making the public pay to watch these Iraqi War movies. And this one is no different.
Rent it. The idea that our source for the WMDs was a rogue Saddam general who met w/ US Intel and had his story bastardized by the Neocons isn't really what happened-our sources there just flat out lied period-but it still makes for worthwhile viewing. Not a documentary.
Oh and dig Jason Isaacs Yankee accent. Funny.
**1/2 outta ****. Greengrass, deep-six the danged shakeycam PLEASE!
I liked Damon as Miller but thought it strayed somewhat when he stopped riding in the Humvees and ran around w/ a million bucks in tow and w/ Hopalong Freddie there. That didn't work so well. Brendan Gleeson is fine as always-and oddly sympathetic here-but they didn't give him enough to do.
Paul Kinnear as a Paul Bremer/Snidely Whiplash type here is hate-able and you hope he rides over an IED later after the credits role. I liked some of this movie, as I said, but there seems to be a problem making the public pay to watch these Iraqi War movies. And this one is no different.
Rent it. The idea that our source for the WMDs was a rogue Saddam general who met w/ US Intel and had his story bastardized by the Neocons isn't really what happened-our sources there just flat out lied period-but it still makes for worthwhile viewing. Not a documentary.
Oh and dig Jason Isaacs Yankee accent. Funny.
**1/2 outta ****. Greengrass, deep-six the danged shakeycam PLEASE!