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.
DVD Release Date: December 23, 2007
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September 30, 2009It felt like just another action/war film for the first half, I was still watching but I was a little disappointed in the preachy and one sided politics. So I was very happy and surprised at the end. That last line was fantastic, it really made the film for me!
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July 12, 2009[before breaking open a door in terrorist apartment]
Ronald Fleury: Which side do you think Allah's on?
Colonel Faris Al Ghazi: We are about to find out!
A well made crime drama taking place in Saudi Arabia, with some great action and a little political drama thrown in. It...( read more) -
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April 6, 2009This is a good well made film but its one hot potatoe. Almost all of it is just talking and FBI proceedures...very dull, but the last 20mins is fast gun filled action, which is very cool but totally Hollywood. The problem is..the film is like a computer game and brainwashes viewe...( read more)
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March 22, 2009Bon film. On peut penser que c'est un peu comme cela que ça fonctionne maintenant dans les pays étrangers. Beaucoup d'informations au début. On ne peut tout saisir. Mais ... c'est plutôt de l'information sur la situation politique et économique entre le pays et les États-Unis. Do...( read more)
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November 14, 2009I was hoping for Jennifer Garner's character to be shot in the head, execution style!
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November 5, 2009The end of this movie os probably one of the most exciting sequences that I've seen in a long while.
Critic Reviews
October 6, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
September 28, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
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 sho... full review
September 28, 2007
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
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
September 28, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
A slick, brutishly effective genre movie: Syriana for dummies.
September 27, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
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
September 27, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
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
September 27, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
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
September 24, 2007
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
If Frank Capra had ever made a Rambo movie, it would have looked like this. full review
September 20, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
[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
Comments
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December 17, 2008i saw this movie ..
yes .. it's great action movie..
this movie is about my country (Saudi Arabia)
but what i don't like about this movie is .. when they sometimes make the saudi polise look so stupid ..
cause we have alot of great polise man wich they sacrifice themselves to save there country...
what hurts the most that there is alot of people has a wrong idea on our religion (Islam) and they
also think that every terrorist is a muslim .. wich is so wrong..
i hope when they do a movie about saudi arabia next time they show the good side more than the bad one .... -
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May 26, 2008I liked this movie, cause it discusses the troubles and diferences between western and estern, the movie has a good action real deaths and explosives pursuits, also a good shooting scenes, altough the movie turns around violence and action it shows a new perspective of the Muslims, cause all the people has a wrong idea on that religion , The character of the Arab military chief represents the right way of Islam, instead the other character the master terrorist mind shows the common opinion about a stupid assassin "muslim", well if you like the action and a good script you might be able to enjoy it!!
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January 7, 2008This is about an FBI team which is sent into Saudi Arabia aka "The Kingdom," in search of a serial killer...NOT a terrorist...internal Saudi attacks.
Coincidentally I am reading a book titled "The Kingdon" Arabia & the House of Sa'ud" written by Robert Lacey.. AMAAZING book but dated...history from up to and through the late 1980's and the hostage situation dealt with by US Pres. Jimmy Carter. -
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