Since films about the war in the Middle East haven't done particular well at the box office, I guess it doesn't hurt to try and sell Green Zone [GREZN] as an urban police thriller, especially one that cost upwards of $100 million. Reuniting with his Bourne director Paul Greengrass [PGRREE], Matt Damon [MDAMO] stars as an American soldier trying to nab the bad guys while dealing with the bureaucracy of the provisional government. The book that served as the source material looked at the occupation of Iraq when inept American officials within the confines of central Baghdad made foolish decisions completely disconnected from the realities outside the walls of their Oz-like Green Zone. With gun-running insurgents standing in for drug-dealing gangs, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" has been turned into "Homicide: Life on the Streets of Baghdad".