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Released in:
2007
Rated:
R
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Oscar® winners Jamie Foxx (Collateral) and Chris Cooper (Breach) and Golden Globe® winners Jennifer Garner (Daredevil) and Jason Bateman (Smokin' Aces) ignite the screen in this high-intensity thriller about a team of elite FBI agents sent to Saudi Arabia to solve a brutal mass murder and find a killer before he strikes again. Out of their element and under heavy fire, the team must join forces with their Saudi counterparts. As these unlikely allies begin to unlock the secrets of the crime scene, the team is led into a heart-stopping, do-or-die confrontation.
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©2007 Universal Studios and MDBF Zweite Filmgesellschaft mbh & Co. KG. All Rights Reserved.
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Lew Irwin
The Kingdom refers to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the movie is set (it was filmed mostly in Arizona), and it concerns the efforts of U.S. special agents played by Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman to discover the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Riyadh, the country's capital. It is opening to vastly mixed reviews. On the one hand, there's this description of the movie by Lou Lumenick in the New York Post: "A xenophobic, overblown, revenge-driven action thriller that exports the Rambo mentality to the contemporary Middle East." It reminds Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times of all those "Yellow Peril" films of World War II. He criticizes "the film's determination to blatantly play on our emotions, to shamelessly exaggerate the good and evil in all of its plot elements. The Kingdom is in many ways a film that doesn't want us to think, doesn't trust us to feel on our own and is more than willing to strip everything of nuance as if it were a disease." But that's not necessarily bad, suggests A.O. Scott in the New York Times, who calls The Kingdom "a slick, brutishly effective genre movie: Syriana for dummies." (Ty Burr in the Boston Globe uses an almost identical description in his review.) Or as Glenn Whipp puts it more unmannerly in the Los Angeles Daily News, it's "a rock-'em, sock-'em action movie that is unapologetic in its ethos of butt-kicking revenge."
Reviewed by: easier2do on 7/25/2009 9:48:03 PM
This film stands apart and above all others in its class, if classifiable. It depicts the sacrifices men have to make, ones that are expected to be made without notice, compassion or reward.I don't know why they threw a woman in the list of characters unless to show the contrast between free women and women that are enslaved by religious customs that are cruel in many regards.
I don't know if this should be listed as an action movie or not, maybe we should have another category for films like this. Ha hows this lets call it a Zionists docudrama, yea that will aways be an action packed film full of blood and violence. You do know we are Zionists right?
Lew Irwin
The Kingdom refers to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the movie is set (it was filmed mostly in Arizona), and it concerns the efforts of U.S. special agents played by Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman to discover the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Riyadh, the country's capital. It is opening to vastly mixed reviews. On the one hand, there's this description of the movie by Lou Lumenick in the New York Post: "A xenophobic, overblown, revenge-driven action thriller that exports the Rambo mentality to the contemporary Middle East." It reminds Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times of all those "Yellow Peril" films of World War II. He criticizes "the film's determination to blatantly play on our emotions, to shamelessly exaggerate the good and evil in all of its plot elements. The Kingdom is in many ways a film that doesn't want us to think, doesn't trust us to feel on our own and is more than willing to strip everything of nuance as if it were a disease." But that's not necessarily bad, suggests A.O. Scott in the New York Times, who calls The Kingdom "a slick, brutishly effective genre movie: Syriana for dummies." (Ty Burr in the Boston Globe uses an almost identical description in his review.) Or as Glenn Whipp puts it more unmannerly in the Los Angeles Daily News, it's "a rock-'em, sock-'em action movie that is unapologetic in its ethos of butt-kicking revenge."
Reviewed by: easier2do on 7/25/2009 9:48:03 PM
This film stands apart and above all others in its class, if classifiable. It depicts the sacrifices men have to make, ones that are expected to be made without notice, compassion or reward.I don't know why they threw a woman in the list of characters unless to show the contrast between free women and women that are enslaved by religious customs that are cruel in many regards.
I don't know if this should be listed as an action movie or not, maybe we should have another category for films like this. Ha hows this lets call it a Zionists docudrama, yea that will aways be an action packed film full of blood and violence. You do know we are Zionists right?
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Reviewed by: easier2do on 7/25/2009 9:48:03 PM
This film stands apart and above all others in its class, if classifiable. It depicts the sacrifices men have to make, ones that are expected to be made without notice, compassion or reward.I don't know why they threw a woman in the list of characters unless to show the contrast between free women and women that are enslaved by religious customs that are cruel in many regards.
I don't know if this should be listed as an action movie or not, maybe we should have another category for films like this. Ha hows this lets call it a Zionists docudrama, yea that will aways be an action packed film full of blood and violence. You do know we are Zionists right?
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