Paul Greengrass’s thriller, starring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear and Jason Isaacs, fuses the director’s attraction to real-life events with his mastery of full-pelt action to offer a commentary on the Iraq War. US Army officer Roy Miller (Damon) is thrown into the chaotic vacuum created by Saddam Hussein’s removal and the Allies’ handling of the immediate aftermath.
His mission: to track down those elusive weapons of mass destruction. Sent on one dangerous wild goose chase after another, Miller begins to question the quality of the intelligence directing the operation. He starts asking awkward questions and is soon being bounced between Poundstone (Kinnear), the Pentagon intelligence officer who insists the WMDs are there to be found, the CIA’s Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson), whose knowledge of the country leads him to a very different conclusion, and Special Forces man Briggs (Isaacs), who appears determined to undermine Miller’s efforts.
As he digs deeper, Miller begins to piece together the complex relationships and competing ideologies of those around him, as well as the possibility that he has also stumbled upon a political conspiracy…
Also starring Amy Ryan, as a journalist with shadowy connections, and Khalid Abdalla, as a local man who offers Miller invaluable, if blunt, insights.
cast
Matt Damon as Roy Miller
Greg Kinnear as Clark Poundstone
Brendan Gleeson as Martin Brown
Amy Ryan as Lawrie Dayne
Jason Isaacs as Maj. Briggs
Khalid Abdalla as Freddy
Igal Naor as General Al Rawi
Antoni Corone as Colonel Lyons
Said Faraj as Seyyed Hamza
Michael O’Neill as Colonel Bethel
Jerry Della Salla as Wilkins
Faycal Attougui as Al Rawi Bodyguard
Aymen Hamdouchi as Ayad Hamza
Nicoye Banks as Perry
Sean Huze as Conway
Michael J. Dwyer as Met-D
Edouard H.R. Gluck as Met-D
Brian Siefkes as Met-D
Adam Wendling as Met-D
Abdul Henderson as Met-D
Paul Karsko as Met-D
Robert Miller as Met-D
Eugene Cherry as Met-D
Alexander Drum as Met-D
Brian VanRiper as Met-D
Matthew Knott as Met-D
Nathan Lewis as Met-D
John Roberson as Infantery Sergeant
Troy Brown as Soldier at WMD Site
Raad Rawi as Ahmed Zubaidi
Bijan Daneshmand as Zubaidi’s Aide
Bryan Reents as Poundstone Aide
Michael Judge as JMOC Tech
Patrick St. Esprit as Military Intel 2 Star
Allen Vaught as Colonel Jonathan Vaught
Paul Rieckhoff as Gonzales
Martin McDougall as Brown’s Aide
Timothy Ahern as General at VTC
Ben Sliney as Bureaucrat at VTC
Whitley Bruner as Senior CIA Man at VTC
Intishal Al Timimi as Hawkish Iraqi
Driss Roukhe as Tahir al-Malik
Muayad Ali as Quasim
Jamal Selmaoui as Hawkish Aide
Mohamed Kafi as Iraqi Officer
Kadhum Sabur as Mystery Man
Hillal Boubker as Qasim Aide
Soumaya Akaaboune as Sanaa
Thamou El Metouani as Seyyed’s Housekeeper
Salah Eddine Elamari as Seyyed’s Son
Naji El Jouhary as Seyyed’s Son
Aroun Benchkaroun as Seyyed’s Son
Hajar Machroune as Seyyed’s Daughter
Scott Berendes as TF221s
Abdelkrim Assad as TF221s
Michael Diaz as TF221s
Tyler Christen as TF221s
Adam Mackey as TF221s
Ben Holland as TF221s
Jeffrey John Carisalez as TF221s
Jonathan Stone as TF221s
James Hodges as TF221s
Larry Lewis as TF221s
William Oakes as Camp Cropper Tech
Ziad Adwan as Translator
Ian Bendel as Camp Cropper Guards
Venie Joshua as Camp Cropper Guards
Miguel Berroa as Camp Cropper Guards
Peter Shayhorn as Camp Cropper Guards
Miguel Palaugalarza as Camp Cropper Wardens
Christopher Lilly as Camp Cropper Wardens
Sabir Ed-Dayab as Iraqi Prisoner
Omar Berdouni as Righteous Ali
Alex Moore as CIA Techs
Alistair Bailey as CIA Techs
Eric Loren as CIA Techs
Paul Cloutier as Special Forces Tech
Wallace Bagwell as Alpha Leader 1
William Meredith as CPA Presser
Tommy Campbell as Chopper Comms Commander
James Wills as Chopper Comms Tech
Jered Bezemek as Convoy Commander
Johnny Nilsson as Republican Palace Reporter
Salman Hassan as Zubaide Conference Speaker #1
Ammar Khdir as Zubaide Conference Speaker #2
Youssif Falah-Jassem as Zubaide Conference Speaker #3
Latif Al Anzi as Zubaide Conference Speaker #4
crew
Director: Paul Greengrass
ES, UK, US, FR | 115 minutes | 2010
