Synopsis
How do you stop an enemy who isn't afraid to die?
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
2007 Directed by Peter Berg
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Jamie Foxx Jennifer Garner Chris Cooper Jason Bateman Ali Suliman Jeremy Piven Ashraf Barhom Richard Jenkins Tim McGraw Kyle Chandler Frances Fisher Danny Huston Kelly AuCoin Anna Deavere Smith Minka Kelly Amy Hunter Tj Burnett Omar Berdouni Raad Rawi Peter Berg Sala Baker Ahmed B. Badran Ashley Scott Nick Faltas Uri Gavriel Hezi Saddik Yasmine Hanani Mahmoud Said Tom Bresnahan Show All…
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Has a lot of the same political issues that most films told from this perspective do but it's pretty well-made/acted and has a sideways enough approach to how it's conceived the roles of its American characters to be of interest. And, look, I'll take diet Mann where I can get it at this point. The climactic assault sequence in this is as good a piece of calculated chaos that the 2000s had to offer and is without question the best thing Berg's ever directed.
not endorsable really, since it's incredibly reductive not to mention frequently offensive in its tokenism, and despite the novel setting/approach not even a particularly good procedural since most of the narrative is taken up with our leads being stymied in their efforts to actually investigate a crime.
nevertheless, there's a hell of a last 30 minutes, which contain some nasty SUV pinball, a brutal fistfight with Jennifer Garner getting thrown around like a rag-doll, and one of the best close-quarters tactical firefights this side of Michael Mann.
kind of even worse than ARGO but i am what i am.
I’ll be honest with y’all. I remember seeing the huge promotional poster on my local movie theater for this movie and til last night when I watched this, I could have sworn this was a Michael Mann movie. Looking back, I guess you can say there’s some Peter Berg in it like in its approach leaning more towards the documentary style almost – but its hard to ignore this one does feel like a movie from Mann at the time.
In terms of the film itself, its not really that impressive and has been done before and the doc style didn’t work that much for me seeing these pretty big actors at front and center. Also this is so focused…
This has been on my movie bucket list for 10 years or so. I came close to buying it a couple times but never did, thinking I'd catch it on a streaming service eventually. I finally broke down and rented it from amazon for $3.99 and began to watch it. That was a big decision for me, I mean come on for $3.99 I can almost buy half a gallon of gas. Wow I'm really procrastinating longer to get to the review of the movie longer than I procrastinated watching the actual movie. Anyway I digress, on to the review.
It was pretty good bruh.
I guess Peter Berg is one of those directors who I can easily understand anybody hating.
His grasp on real life issues and politics strikes me as someone who thinks he's making important movies when in actual fact he's making morally dubious, braindead action movies that wouldn't have looked out of place in the 1980s. And believe me when I'm saying that's not a bad thing at all.
Some of the politics in The Kingdom and its attitudes towards Saudi culture, religion and society is amazingly idiotic. I mean, you even get a token Saudi who heroically dies in the arms of the brave American hero at the end. If I hadn't seen so much of this sort of thing…
somewhere between hero worship, critical undertones and action spectacle Peter Berg likes to do his traditional patriot meal: 100 US Americans die in Saudi-Arabia. why there? Iraq, Afghanistan anyone? looking through national glasses in foreign territory is a recipe all too known. "We are the victims, the location seems extraterrestrial."
a fake scenario like this has a cynical quality to it, because shit goes down every day, but who would care for 100 dead arabs, right? the special agent troops will only fly in if the dead souls spoke english.
cinematic euphemisms and rearrangements for the sake of your tale.
garbage man Jamie Foxx has this morally clean mission, taking care of business. the political dimension is excluded, you won't…
A real Peterberg Salad, where it doesn't look like any of the ingredients should go together, but it all somehow ends up tasting pretty good.
I'm no expert on the area, or Saudi Arabian relations, but this feels like the kind of movie that John Wayne would make today, so it can't be a very good representation.
STARRING:
Jeremy Piven as "Oooh...don't you hate Jeremy Piven?"
Chris Cooper as The Crazy Ole Coot
Jason Bateman as Jason Bateman....from the I.T. Department
Jennifer Garner as Woman Who Scowls at Constant, Subtle Misogyny
and
Jamie Foxx as John Wayne
Let it be known that in The Kingdom, Jennifer Garner stabs a terrorist in the dick
After a devastating terrorist attack at an American compound in Riyadh which claims dozens of victims, including a fellow agent, an FBI task force arrives to investigate. Despite the misgivings of the Saudi government, they assign a local police officer to help them.
"The Kingdom" isn't a bad flick. As a matter of fact, I'd say that up until the last 20-30 minutes it's pretty good. The opening attack strikes a nerve with its visceral violence and the uncompromising portrayal of death, brutality, and the resulting chaos. Nevertheless, this is more of a police procedural than a typical action movie, and a good one at that. The behind-the-scenes political jostling is interesting although I have my doubts about how close…
There’s a scene in this where Jennifer garner bites into a guy’s head and I swear to god they use the sound effect of someone biting into an apple.
A potent and taut political thriller, Peter Berg's underappreciated "The Kingdom" is a vigorous and riveting drama fueled by gun-fire and age-old conflict. Able to tuck compelling human drama into high-volume spectacle, Berg assembles a film that is as powerful as it is earnest and exciting.
A geo-politically charged investigative procedural, "The Kingdom" revolves around the work of an FBI unit sent to Saudi Arabia to locate the perpetrators of a bombing. The bombing costs the lives of US citizens and reveals the uneasy cohabitation of American and Saudi, sharing the Saudi kingdom as a means to a monetary or globally important end. The investigators, interlopers in a culturally closed society, find themselves creating fragile alliances and bristling enemies during…
What a fantastic final act. Absolutely relentless action, to the point that it's actively stressful. I thought the opening attack was also very well, ahem, executed, and set the stakes in an manner that caused instant buy-in.
In between some of the political pissing matches (in both Washington and Saudi Arabia) felt pretty Hollywood cliché. "When you fuck this up--and you will--it's gonna be your job!" NEVER HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE!
Still a solid, well-paced terrorism action thriller. Some might call it more of a police procedural, but tbh most of that is just the procedures facing aggressive interference.