I am not the biggest fan of war movies, but I do enjoy Matt Damon from time to time. I was really impressed with this movie. Although it is fictionally based, it does paint a very vivid image of what went on at the beginning of the Iraqi War. I have always felt that war is a man's game, an ego booster to see who is the strongest one. It truly is not about the people, it is about the government. This story is based on the fact that the United States took fictitious information and tried to sell it to the American people and the world that it was the truth. The information is that Iraq was housing massive amounts of WMD, weapons of mass destruction. When in truth, there were none.
The story begins with a frustrated soldier Miller (Matt Damon) who is tired of going into locations (that have strong information from a major Iraqi code-named "Magellan") and there is nothing there. He has voiced his opinion to his superior officer to no avail and decides to openly show his lack of faith in the source in a meeting. There the representative of the CIA approaches Miller and lets him know that if he really wanted to help to give him a call.
You also see the relationship between reporter Lawrie Dane (Amy Ryan) for the Wall Street Journal and White House liaison Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear). Dane is increasingly becoming frustrated in the same vain as Miller because no discovery of WMDs has been made. She becomes more demanding trying to actually meet the source "Magellan" to gain further insight and to solidify her reporting.
The movie is fast paced and exciting. It takes you on a discovery of what went on in the early days of the Iraqi invasion and the explosion of events that follow the failure to find any form of weaponry created by the Iraqi government.
I give it an 8 out of 10.
Next up "Going the Distance."
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