The hunt for Saddam’s weapons of mass destructions!
The whole premise of this movie is kinda funny to me. Yes, spoiler ahead, there were no WMD in Iraq, it was just a lie that they come up with so that they could invade Iraq so a movie that goes into this, that actually culminates into this has some serious problems to overcome.
On the other side Wiki informs me that actually somebody managed to be offended by this so maybe somewhere in the American right they still thinks that the weapons are there, they were just very well hidden….
Anyway being a sane person I knew from the start where this exercise was going so the only thing to check is how Miller, played by Matt Damon, will get there and on this front I must admit that they crafted a decent thriller. The characters are clearly defined even if every one of them blatantly represent a category, there is the spy, the press, the evil politician, the good native etc., and the plot is east to follow. Sadly they stumble in another problem, bring this one a realistic affair not a lot happens in term of action and the big action scene consist mainly of our hero running around in Bagdad.
In the end this is the umpteenth failure to get an enthralling movie out of the war in Iraq. I think that the problem actually lies in the gulf war itself, that it’s simply a not very cinematic event. The background is a boring desert or a derelict city, the enemies goat herders and the whole situation just a big mess. Nothing that screams good cinema moment to me.
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