Right don’t get me wrong this film is ok and if you want a DVD on a Friday night then this will do fine. However I was expecting much more from the Damon/Greengrass collaboration. After Bourne this is refreshing to see Damon as a normal man and not an ubersolider. This is emphasised through out the film as he gets his ass kicked. Nonetheless from the opening WMD search you know where this film is going unless you haven’t read a newspaper in the past 10 years.
There are some nice touches with Brendan Gleeson been the stand out CIA man complete with a dubious American accent and Freddie the Translator. However the rest of Damon’s Team Seem to be faceless marines with no real back-story.
I think the real issue is that Iraq has become the new Vietnam but where as Vietnam movies relived the nostalgia of a war fought over a decade before these films seem too soon to be revelling in the politics of it all.
The Hurt Locker was different, demonstrating the adrenaline fuelled life that soldiers have to follow to only to come back to the real world of choosing what cereal you want for breakfast. Politics was not the issue society was.
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