"The Kingdom of Survival" brings together several alternative American voices.
There's nothing wrong with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino taking on tough-guy roles again, but there's something overly strenuous about the effort in this case.
When the closing credits rolled for Mongol, I expected to see the words "Sponsored by the Mongolian Association for the Rehabilitation of Genghis Khan's Image."
Screenwriter and director Garth Jennings simply hasn't invested enough in his characters amid their cute shenanigans to make us care. Better if he'd forgotten his fantasy ideal and let real little boys be boys.
Errol Morris has pointed his lens at lion tamers, Floridians, a Holocaust denier and now the Abu Ghraib soldiers, who talk themselves right into perdition.