Rent The Kingdom (2007)

Excellent - The Kingdom review by CP Customer

The film starts with a terrorist attack in UAE claiming the lives of hundreds of Western families and locals. Jamie Foxx plays an FBI agent sent to The Kingdom with his team to investigate and assist the local Police in finding the perpetrators of the attack. There are frustrations caused by political manouevring and culture clashes. An interesting exploration of the differences in these cultures which leaves you thinking about how they can ever co-exist peacefully while some people hold certain beliefs and prejudices. Excellent film with modern storyline, good script and strong performances. The camera work adds to the excitement of the film and the confusion.

A brilliant, masterfully directed & wonderfully acted action thriller - The Kingdom review by TB

After a successful career as a actor & then director, Peter Berg made a huge impact with this brilliant film, set in Saudi Arabia after a spate of terrorist attacks. Part of the brilliance of this film is due to the powerhouse producing & guidance of Michael Mann, whose fingerprints are all over this film in terms of tone & action.

Jamie Foxx plays Ronald Fleury, an FBI agent who is sent to the Saudi capital, along with a crack team, to root out the culprits of a series of horrific terrorist attacks on the American campuses of oil workers. They are paired up with Colonel Faris Al-Ghazi, a deeply distrusting man who initially resents the American support sent to help him, but slowly forms a bond with the team.

The tension is expertly handled, then when the action finally comes, it is a masterclass in direction, stunt work & pacing. What starts as a frantic car chase then turns into a desperate search through a nest of terrorists inside an apartment building.

Finally, what really completes this film is the ending. It is absolutely perfect in terms of showing the futility of the situation that the Middle East finds itself caught in & drives home the pointlessness & never-ending cycle that results in needless bloodshed & trauma.

A wonderful masterpiece.

cobblers - The Kingdom review by CP Customer

I was so dissapointed with this nonsense. Americans save the world, again yawn! Politaclly, socially and culturally incorrect, gun toting crap and US bravado that only serves to made the rest of the world despair at the bullshit they propogate.

Don't bother- unless you regularly hold long and diverse conversations with your goldfish.