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Mood:
- RoughSuspensefulExciting
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Plot:
- Special AgentsRace Against TimeTerrorismChaos and MayhemCulture ClashDangerDeadlyHeroes more...
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Genres:
- ActionDramaThriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- Middle EastWashington DCSaudi Arabia
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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- Twists and Turns
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- SeriousRealisticFast
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- ProfanityStrong Violent Content
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The Kingdom, 2007
English
USA, Germany
Profile of The Kingdom
The Kingdom can be described as exciting, rough, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around special agents, terrorism, and chaos and mayhem. The main genres are drama, thriller, and action. In terms of style, The Kingdom involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is fast paced. The Kingdom is located in saudi arabia, the Middle East, and Washington DC. It takes place in contemporary times. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that The Kingdom involves strong violent content and profanity.
Summary of The Kingdom
Actor, writer, and director Peter Berg (FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) delivers a fearless, action-packed political thriller with THE KINGDOM. Shot in the Middle East with unsettling immediacy, the hand-held cameras put viewers right inside the action, while the tension between American FBI agents and their Saudi counterparts maintains an interesting uncertainty about who's "right" and who's "wrong." The bad guys, however, are unmistakable: the film opens with a brutal terrorist attack on an oil company compound in Saudi Arabia, where a visiting FBI agent is killed. Back home in Washington, fellow agents Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx, RAY) and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner, ALIAS), want revenge, and will do whatever it takes to gain access to the investigation. Fleury all but blackmails a Saudi prince to get clearance against the wishes of a timorous attorney general, and flies overnight to the scene of the crime. Accompanying him are the no-nonsense forensics expert Mayes, Southern-fried bomb authority Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper, ADAPTATION), and Jewish smart aleck Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT). Once there, they encounter the resistance of a Saudi government more interested in getting the Americans safely out of the country and avoiding conflict, rather than in solving the crime. They are assigned a smarmy handler with a weak stomach (Jeremy Piven, ENTOURAGE) to make sure they stay out of trouble. The team must navigate a maze of bureaucracy to begin collecting evidence, but they have an unlikely ally in their Saudi escort, Colonel Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom, PARADISE NOW), a scrupulous and intelligent officer whom Fleury befriends. Soon enough, procedure and protocol give way to car chases and explosive fire fights, and the current bleak political climate of extremism and violence is portrayed in a stark light with no easy answers.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, Germany |
| Release date: | 28 September 2007 |
| Runtime: | 110 min |
Cast and Crew
as Ronald Fleury
as Janet Mayes
as Grant Sykes
as Adam Leavitt
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Critics Reviews
Variety
A realist thriller that mixes crowd-pleasing mayhem with provocative politics.
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- by: John Anderson
Rolling Stone
Matthew Michael Carnahan's caffeinated script isn't much concerned with balance, but it gets some anyway, from the resonant images of culture clash that Berg catches on the fly and a remarkable performance from Ashraf Barhom.
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- by: Peter Travers
Users Reviews
What should have been a three star movie with an actor (Jamie Foxx) who I'm not crazy about ended up being four stars due to the content and the last half an hour which had insane action. Peter Berg who did the Rundown with the Rock directed an even...
- 23.March.2009
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- by: prozac pop
- prozac pop rated this movie
8/10Great
This is an ample, functional and even entertaining action flick, but it fails on one of it's main goals: to make a statement about the war on terror. The film is told in a shaky, ultra-modern style, which alone detracts from any statements being...
- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
- sethdellinger rated this movie
0/10
