Matt Damon, you are a talented actor with a very dynamic on-screen range. We have seen you as a bad-ass in the Bourne’s, a love interest in Good Will Hunting, a punk in School Ties, a funny crook in The Ocean’s, an athlete in Invictus, and a villain in The Talented Mr Ripley and The Departed.  However, of late, you continue to play the same exact role. Whenever you star in a movie by yourself, you play an employee of the military who is on a mission to expose corruption.   It seems you are some personal mission to show your discontent with the US Government.  This role is getting old.

“Green Zone,” Matt Damon’s new movie, comes out next Friday March 12th, and is directed by Paul Greengrass.  Greengrass also directed the second and third installments of the Bourne series.   Here is the IMDB plot of the movie – “Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.” We all have seen the trailer for this movie. It looks exactly the same as every other Bourne movie. Yet this time, it’s not a Bourne movie.

I don’t know why but this movie is just getting under my skin. Watching the trailer has me asking myself a ton of questions that I don’t know the answer to. Why is Matt Damon doing this movie? Why is he playing the same role? Why do him and Greengrass feel obligated to do military thrillers about the corruption of the government?

What is going on here? Both Greengrass and Damon have overly milked this genre.  Damon’s personal mission to show his discontent with the US Government is getting annoying.  While of course I do not condone US Government corruption, I just feel Matt Damon’s personal mission is old.

It’s like he feels personally obligated to do this. As fans of your movies, we understand you have a thing against the US Government. Your insistence on continuing to hammer home your message is old. You don’t need to tell us anymore.  If I am wrong here and you aren’t on a mission than I apologize, but this role is old nonetheless.  I hope to see if you different roles in the future.

Are you seeing Green Zone on next Friday?