The Kingdom (2007)
Chris Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
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R, 1 hr. 50 min.
Directed by:
Peter Berg
Release Date: Sep 28, 2007
DVD Release Date: Dec 23, 2007
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Dullsville. Even the action sequences could not save this dull dull film. Jamie Foxx has too many x's in his name and has the same problem as Frank Lampard i.e. he looks like someone has asked him an incredibly difficult question and is staring at th... (read more) Dullsville. Even the action sequences could not save this dull dull film. Jamie Foxx has too many x's in his name and has the same problem as Frank Lampard i.e. he looks like someone has asked him an incredibly difficult question and is staring at the top of his nose for an answer. Why does he have the additional x? Maybe that is the question he is pondering and hopefully when he figures it out he will unfurrow his brow and become a better actor. I feel it is no coincidence that his greatest plaudit was playing Ray Charles, a blind man with big sunglasses that would have hidden his look of bewilderment.
the gun fight and close combat are breathtaking, which made up the low pace in the first half...
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actución, edición, dirección, e historia (Y)
primera hora explicativa, y si nada de acción, a ecepción de el comienzo, pero desps la peli se pone interesante...
Y el final uff, muy bueno, excelentes tomas y me parece que fué un gran... (read more) Peli (Y)
actución, edición, dirección, e historia (Y)
primera hora explicativa, y si nada de acción, a ecepción de el comienzo, pero desps la peli se pone interesante...
Y el final uff, muy bueno, excelentes tomas y me parece que fué un gran trabajo..xD
Oli tässä hetkensä. Ãrsytti vaan tuo Amerikka-hehkutus välillä. Ei keksi muuta sanottavaa kuin "Ihan hyvä".
saw it again on DVD. loved it just as much. one of those dramas that knows not to take itself too seriously.
Gripande, spännande, lärorik och tyvärr rätt blodig men väldigt väldigt bra!!
I agree, there are some cheesy moments, but it's a great movie. One of the few good Hollywood movies I've seen in a very long time. Very intense and has a pretty scary message at the end.
Very slow-going and political for the first part of the film; it picks up halfway-through and then the last 20 min are just mindblowing!!! Those 20 minutes at the end were worth watching the first 60 dull minutes at the beginning of the movie....
I didn't like the way it ended but overall it was a good movie. Then again, I wouldn't watch it over and over again.
Critic Reviews
It attempts to say something profound about the war on terrorism and the human tendency toward an us-vs.-them mentality. But the finale feeds on a sense of bloodlust and then tries to pull back to show us the error of maniacal revenge.full review
It's clear that Berg wants to humanize the Saudis, but I suspect much of this nuance will get blown to smithereens in a firestorm of bullets.full review
A slick, brutishly effective genre movie: Syriana for dummies.
A riveting ticking time-bomb of a movie that really works. The last 30 minutes are so intense you won't be able to move.full review
The picture is made with a degree of care, and what's surprising about it is the way [director] Berg actually resists making rah-rah jingoistic proclamations instead of relying on them.full review
I left the theater completely uncertain about what the filmmakers intended to say about the orgiastic bloodshed they showed me. The Kingdom is an explosion of rage in search of a rationale.full review
If Frank Capra had ever made a Rambo movie, it would have looked like this.full review
[Director] Berg stages every ambush, gun battle and car chase as if his life depends on it. The Kingdom could have been a jingoistic CSI: Riyadh, and sometimes it is.full review
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