We finally got around to watching The Green Zone the other night. I meant to catch it in theaters but never got around to it for some reason.

Honestly, I’m glad that we ended up waiting. It was rather disappointing as far as Matt Damon’s action movies go.

For starters, the movie was entirely too long considering the simplicity of the main plot arc. The dialogue was solid but the pace… just wasn’t. The story essentially revolves around Matt Damon trying to unravel the truth behind why the United States is at war with Iraq. It’s peppered with CIA agents and crooked Pentagon officials, as you’d expect from a movie like this.

In other words, it was yet another war movie trying to stand out from the crowd by taking a more politically pointed approach than most films. Unfortunately, the “point” wasn’t anything that most people don’t already know – that the U.S. attacked Iraq without just cause.

We honestly ended up watching the movie in two parts because we got a late start the first night and simply weren’t engaged enough to finish. It’s worth checking out if you don’t have anything else to watch, as it wasn’t necessarily bad. It just wasn’t anything special.

Let’s hope that Damon signs on for the new Bourne movie that was just announced so that he might be able to redeem himself.