The Kingdom
I saw the movie "Kingdom" over the weekend, and I must say that I was unimpressed by it. You may have seen an annoying commercial for the movie the claims that the last half-hour of the movie is the most intense thing you'll ever see. I must disagree with that statement, in fact the movie tries to be a big-budget Hollywood action flick and a thought-inspiring drama and fails at both.
The movie does provide some good points about the situation in Middle East and the politics of USA in that region. However, most of the things that the movie touches up on can be summarized as "cliche", and after years of news coverage and movies like "Syriana", the film does not quite break any new ground in terms of the subject. My main problem with the movie is that it is still a typical popcorn vehicle underneath the cultural clash plot that it tries to offer.
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