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The Kingdom: "This is a bad neighborhood".

Posted by mr grits on September 28, 2007 at 14:59:11:
Gritty, graphic, and believable, this mostly steady-cam film bruises your sensibilities with a uncomfortable feeling of realness. After the queasy opening act of terrorism we are introduced to a FBI evidence team who is bursting at the seams to investigate the crime scene where two of their fellow agents fell. We see the immediate State Department reaction and the politics of keeping "The Kingdom" happy with our presence. After some clever "black mail" by Agent Jamie Foxx the team is allowed into SA to conduct their investigation.

Once Foxx, Cooper, Garner, and Bateman arrive in SA they are greeted by a Colonel who's mission is to button-down the investigation and render it ineffective. Events progress and we see a very real Arab world (filmed in Abu Dhabi) and the slow turn of the Colonel to the team's mission.

At a decisive point the film drops into "Blackhawk Down" mode and all hell breaks out. The action and flying lead will satisfy the most hardcore war-junkie as our agents pursue an abducted Bateman into a bad neighborhood.

This film runs the gamut of political and emotional intricacies and ends on a very strong point: We will never settle our cultural differences.

The film has its uneven parts and perhaps Foxx was miscast but overall it worked. Two big fat "ulululululu's" to The Kingdom.

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