Review:     3.5 Stars     Rated 14A

“Hide and go seek” and “Capture the flag” are good themes for this movie except that it’s one sided.  The seekers can’t find the hidden and the flag hunters can’t capture a flag that’s not there.  Green Zone is inspired by a non-fiction book written by  journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran.  Green Zone stars Matt Damon and is directed by Paul Greengrass, who has worked with Damon on two of the three Bourne series films.

Plot: Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his team of army inspectors are given missions to find weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert.  Moving around from one site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but find nothing.  Roy Miller is questioning the accuracy and the source of the intelligence he has been receiving.  He is frustrated and is getting no where, his troops are placing themselves in constant danger, so Miller finds himself looking for answers elsewhere leading him to stumble upon a cover-up.

Did It Suck? The movie keeps moving along nicely and never really lets up.  It has some good intense moments and good action sequences.  The acting was ‘in your face’ and fluent, making it a “true to life” type movie.  The shaky cam affect in some sequences was done well and not overly done.  Over all this was a good war film but not the best.  The political side to the story was actually interesting and Damon was quite good playing his role.  For the most part I didn’t feel bad about paying full price to see it on the big screen, however, I’d Wait for the DVD.

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- Dan Kersey

Review:    4 Stars     Rated:     R

Don’t touch that dial, you might blown up!   The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.

The Hurt Locker, Staring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty as members of a U.S. Army EOD unit in Iraq . We follow their tour together as they contend with defusing bombs, the threat of insurgency, and the tension that develops among them. -wiki

For the most part the camera work in this movie was filmed in a style called Cinéma vérité, aka Shaky-Cam.  Even with this style of camera work I found the movie quite tolerable to watch.  The film was not overly gory or violent, but the realism in some scenes definitely called for the ‘R’ rating.  This is a must see movie in or out of the theatre.  It’s intense, well acted, and has a good solid pace so it’s Worth a Ticket in my book.

- Dan Kersey