Hated Bush and Blair? Love conspiracy theories? Paul Greengrass's GZ is Jason Bourne in fatigues meets Oliver Stone's JFK. There are bad guys and good guys and no confusing grey areas in between. And I'm not saying who wins.
Liberals will love this confirmation of their beliefs about those Iraqi WMDs. Rednecks won't watch it, because it will challenge their beliefs about those raghead cameljockey WMDs. Pick a side and there'll be nothing morally or politically challenging for the viewer. Though the emergence of the plot - in both senses - is well-crafted and engaging.
And the action is great. Lots of running around a terrifying Baghdad at night - looks a bit like Peckham but safer. Rapid-fire combat enhanced by rapid-fire editing.
Matt Damon is in excellent form as Matt Damon. That fat Irish guy from In Bruges is great as a - wait for it - CIA good guy. Best of all is the surprisingly Glasgow-born Khalid Abdallah who plays a young Iraqi man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. And then suddenly becomes the centre of a radical plot twist at the end.
Go and see it.
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