During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
Direction
Greengrass's handheld chaos makes every corridor feel like a death trap.
Editing
Relentless cutting that refuses to let you breathe for 115 minutes.
Director
Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon
Roy Miller
Greg Kinnear
Clark Poundstone
Brendan Gleeson
Martin Brown
Amy Ryan
Lawrie Dayne
Khalid Abdalla
Freddy
Jason Isaacs
Maj. Briggs
Igal Naor
General Al Rawi
Said Faraj
Seyyed Hamza
Raad Rawi
Ahmed Zubaidi
Michael O'Neill
Colonel Bethel
Tommy Campbell
Chopper Comms Commander
Antoni Corone
Col. Lyons
Jerry Della Salla
Wilkins
Aymen Hamdouchi
Ayad Hamza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film adapts Rajiv Chandrasekaran's non-fiction book 'Imperial Life in the Emerald City,' though it fictionalizes the whistleblower plot for thriller mechanics.
Released as Iraq War films were box office poison—audiences were exhausted by Bush-era reality, making this a $100M flop that predicted the WMD truth years early.
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