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It's Jason Bourne goes to Bagdhad in Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass's latest film "The Green Zone".

Set in 2003, the film explores the U.S. war in Iraq and the search for weapons of mass destruction.

The film has taken heat from some for a seemingly anti-American agenda.    

We're getting perspectives from E! Online, NPR, The New York Post and KGO-TV

"The Green Zone" finds itself in the red zone for many critics who dislike the film's heavy political undertone. 

In the New York Post, film critic Kyle Smith accuses the film of being downright anti-American. 

"It's one thing to make a fantasy film laced with snarky jibes at the United States and its military. It's of another order entirely for an American studio (Universal, a unit of GE) to perpetrate, during an ongoing war, such vicious anti-American lies disguised as cheap entertainment."

Despite giving the film a B-plus rating E! Online points out that the film won't speak to everyone.

"If the phrase "Bush lied, people died" is likely to upset you, so will this film, but it is notable that Greengrass manages to criticize the war without, for the most part, being derogatory towards the troops."

But not everyone seems bothered by the Anti-Bush era tone.

A reporter for NPR points out, the political agenda wasn't the problem, it was making it believable. 

"It's not that it's badly done; it's that it's so much like 24's Jack Bauer heading off yet another evil plot that even the biggest conspiracy buffs will find it tough to swallow. In the Greengrass zone, there's no time or space for the quiet revelation, the offhand but crystalline detail that transcends the melodramatic agenda."

But a critic for KGO-TV in San Francisco says despite feeling familiar, the film still delivers a good time.

"This really is another Jason Bourne adventure, this time in army fatigues. Frantic camera work, non stop action, leaves you dizzy. It's a fictional account of looking for those WMD's, why we went to war in Iraq and just who are the bad guys. When Matt Damon begins to question what's going on, he says 'I thought we were all on the same side', and he's told 'don't be naive.' This isn't the definitive version of this kind of film, but I liked it."

Writer: Maurice Scarborough