Kyle Smith posts a blog item on "Green Zone," the new Matt Damon movie. Actually, it's not that new; it was finished two years ago, and has been sitting in the can ever since--never a good sign.
But here's Kyle's lede--I cut-and-paste, you decide:
I can’t believe what I just saw, so I’ll think about it some more before I go into detail. But if I were the kind of excitable guy who believes in boycotts, I’d say “Boycott NBC-Universal” for its appalling new anti-American flick “Green Zone,” an absurdly awful would-be actioner that stars Matt Damon as a US warrant officer in 2003 Baghdad.
I would never have accused director Paul Greengrass, who made the astonishingly powerful “United 93,” of being simplistic. But he has made a $100 million war film in which American troops are the bad guys. There are moments that we’re supposed to cheer because our soldiers are getting shot down- but it’s okay because they’re evildoers at worst or stooges at best who are trying to kill the one guy in the country who can prevent an insurgency from taking root.
The movie isn't getting much attention, of course, and it probably won't do very well. But it'll be interesting to see how Comcast handles this political challenge, as it is trying to grease the regulatory and legislative wheels for its proposed acquisition of NBC-U.
