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Condescension Cornernew
The Kingdom features some cool action, but is ruined by political correctness and moralizing.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-04-2007 |
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A Dark-Skinned Good Guynew
Tall, slender and elegant in a charcoal-gray leather jacket and neatly trimmed chin stubble, Ashraf Barhom is an Israeli Arab making his Hollywood debut as the righteous Saudi Arabian who sets an example of personal and professional heroism in The Kingdom.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
10-02-2007 |
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The Action-Packed 'Kingdom' Misfiresnew
Peter Berg's film feels too rote and near-Rambo in its simplistic portrait of a foreign policy disaster as easily remedied with a few well-placed brutal killings.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-02-2007 |
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CSI: Riyadhnew
Initially, The Kingdom seems like it might be another of this season's politically charged movies, but it actually plays more like an explosive episode of CSI: Riyadh.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-28-2007 |
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'The Kingdom' Offers a Smackdownnew
It seems like a Hollywood blockbuster, but Peter Berg's latest induces a bit of shaming about cycles of hate and violence that we must be fully cognizant of if we're ever to break them.
Charleston City Paper |
Maryann Johanson |
09-27-2007 |
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'The Kingdom' Has Powernew
Surprisingly, the best of this year's lot of war movies thus far is The Kingdom, an action movie with characters filled by Hollywood central casting.
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'The Kingdom': The Middle East for Dummiesnew
The film's main fault lies in its didactic pretensions, and in wanting to be something more than it's capable of being -- at heart, The Kingdom is really just a standard little TV action show for the big screen, with decent actors and a hyperactive cameraman.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
09-27-2007 |
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'The Kingdom': The Witless A-Teamnew
This blandly politicized action film borrows equally from documentaries and Mr. T.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
09-27-2007 |
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'The Kingdom' Wears No Clothesnew
For all its desperate need to be taken seriously, Peter Berg's The Kingdom is painfully phony, made more so by its well-disguised attempts at political correctness.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-26-2007 |
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Peter Berg Unleashes Violence On Saudi Arabia -- and Usnew
Berg has made an action movie called The Kingdom that is set in Saudi Arabia, that includes a great many bastards getting wasted, and is ultimately a responsible and even a very fine piece of filmmaking.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
09-26-2007 |
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Staring Into the Abyss: Surgical Squads Get Screentime
There's a lot of bang for the buck in director Peter Berg's juiced-up "what-if" illustration of a U.S. Special Forces rogue team responding to a massive attack on oil company employees and their kin inside the imaginary safety of a housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Jennifer Gardner Faces the Heat in 'The Kingdom'new
In an L.A. interview room, she says that because she had just had a daughter with husband Ben Affleck, she and her long-time stuntwoman, Shauna Duggins, were concerned about how much physical activity she could endure during filming.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
09-21-2007 |
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