63
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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttChristopher Rouse's rapid-fire editing nervously stitches the stunts, chases, fights and confrontations together. It's a remarkable film.
- 80EmpireEmpireBourne goes epic. A wham-bam actioner, but its pointed political subtext ensures Damon and Greengrass deliver their most provocative mission yet.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA master of smash-mash montage and choreographed chaos, Greengrass is the best action director working today, adroit at producing the sense of everyone converging and everything happening simultaneously.
- 70Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzTo pretend that the film doesn't make a political statement is silly. Of course it does. It wouldn't be effective at all if it didn't.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumWith Green Zone, though, the malaise has finally hit me. So while Damon's Miller uncovers the (inconvenient) truth of why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, all I want to know is: How does he suggest we get out?
- 50VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyOnce Damon's one-man truth squad goes off the reservation and starts behaving too much like Jason Bourne for comfort, the film begins not only spilling more blood but also leaking crucial credibility.
- 40Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneBoxoffice MagazineRay GreeneGreen Zone is an exercise in commercial cowardice masquerading as a thriller about political bravery.
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIt's also rather tawdry. The climax is as ludicrous as any Jack Bauer adventure, and Greengrass is always on shaky ground. Literally.
- 40The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneWhat lends the film its grip and its haste is also what makes it unsatisfactory.
- 40Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfNot since a Nam-scarred Sly Stallone asked, "Do we get to win this time?" in "Rambo: First Blood Part II" has an American action star been deployed to rewrite history so thoroughly.